![]() Especially in United States – known for heavy public surveillance – DuckDuckGo’s popularity curve is on the rise, witnessing major boost after Snowden’s revelations and PRISM fears. ![]() Thanks to this narrative, DuckDuckGo has been steadily gaining popularity ever since its release. As a newcomer in September 25, 2008, its mission was set clear: no tracking, no profiling, and the aim at independent web crawler, only partially backed up by variety of other sources. We’ll start at the beginning.ĭuckDuckGo might be the most popular search engine focused on user privacy and source diversity. We were shocked by what we found and think that other privacy-minded thinking adults will be too. ![]() Weinberg’s tweet prompted us to more carefully examine DuckDuckGo’s and specifically Weinberg’s record on privacy and independence more carefully. We would like to hear both sides of the story, and until recently, we felt DuckDuckGo helped us access all information and not just US security establishment and MSM approved sources. DuckDuckGo users including most of us at Foliovision were shocked on 11 March to wake up to a tweet from DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg that DDG would be filtering out alternative media sources: “ At DuckDuckGo, we’ve been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.”
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