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DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement

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  • angstromangstrom Moderator

    @dane_doherty said:

    @stevewatson301 said:

    @angstrom said:
    @desperand @asterisk14

    Please keep war-related posts out of this thread

    What’s with the overly aggressive moderation style where people can’t even discuss a comparison of search engines and their surrounding politics?

    Seems like @SirFoxy was right in his assessment, and feel free to give me a permanent ban. I can spend my time usefully elsewhere, and I hope you’ll help me with it.

    I don't know if it's @angstrom or somebody else, but I feel that the amount of moderation actions skyrocketed lately. Every other thread nowadays has some of its posts removed, thread title changed or is outright closed.

    I can only speak for myself, but in general, I aim to be transparent as a mod, but this doesn't mean that I always get it right

    So far, more than once, upon reconsideration of a case, I've reversed a mod action that I've taken (and have openly said so)

    Also, so far, more than once, I've said to users that they should feel free to write to the admins to object to a mod action/decision that I've taken

    And just to say it again, the great majority of my actions as mod have been based on flagged posts (including, by the way, my action in this thread)

    Thanked by 1bikegremlin
  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    Impossible. I learned here (a while ago) that DuckDuckGo is the way to go/search and that it's THE trustworthy search engine.

    I didn't believe it but gladly I was led to the light.

    Soon: "Google isn't all that nice", followed by "twitter might be not totally open to free speech".

  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    @angstrom

    FWIW I do like your moderation and I think it's needed.

  • @jsg said:
    @angstrom

    FWIW I do like your moderation and I think it's needed.

    Because it so happens to hide the war crimes that you are so proud of.

    Thanked by 1turdski
  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    @stevewatson301 said:

    @jsg said:
    @angstrom

    FWIW I do like your moderation and I think it's needed.

    Because it so happens to hide the war crimes that you are so proud of.

    So much for your capability to think rationally ...

    In fact I do not even know about @angstrom "hiding war crimes" "I'm so proud of" (allegedly) because I hardly ever even look into that smelly hate thread.

    The real reason I like angstrom's moderation is that he reigns in somewhat on politicizing almost every thread and on woke, often hate-driven attacks and that he seems to have and use a working brain.

  • angstromangstrom Moderator

    Guys, I understand that not everyone will agree with where I draw the line, and we could argue about this particular case at length, but let's try to move on if we can

    I'm not trying to suppress discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of various search engines (even if the topic of this thread is nominally narrower than this), but once the war situation is imported into a thread, things (can) escalate quickly. Which I can understand emotionally -- I'm not trying to deny that each of us has strong feelings one way or another about the war

    (And as you all know, there's a dedicated, still-tolerated, Offtopic thread about the war)

  • NekkiNekki Veteran

    If @jsg likes the moderation, you know this place has gone to shit.

    WREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  • VoidVoid Member

    @Nekki said:
    If @jsg likes the moderation, you know this place has gone to shit.

    WREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    Nice dp

  • NekkiNekki Veteran

    @jmaxwell said:

    @Nekki said:
    If @jsg likes the moderation, you know this place has gone to shit.

    WREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    Nice dp

    Shoryuken?

  • VoidVoid Member

    @Nekki said:

    @jmaxwell said:

    @Nekki said:
    If @jsg likes the moderation, you know this place has gone to shit.

    WREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    Nice dp

    Shoryuken?

    ok

  • NekkiNekki Veteran

    @jmaxwell said:

    @Nekki said:

    @jmaxwell said:

    @Nekki said:
    If @jsg likes the moderation, you know this place has gone to shit.

    WREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    Nice dp

    Shoryuken?

    ok

    No dp?

  • Searx was designed for searching and avoiding those search engine trackers
    https://searx.github.io/searx/

    Browsers I would say is all compromised these days in some aspect. Mozilla by default allows a lot of trackers, you need extensions and about:config modifications. Which they keep removing.
    Chromium is made by Google.
    Everything else is derivative of above.

  • asterisk14asterisk14 Banned
    edited June 2022

    If you're using Windows 8 and above or an Android phone I don't even why these threads get started.

    Edward Snowden (refugee in Russia) and Julian Assange (political prisoner in UK's equivalent of Guantanamo) showed us that all our internet and phone activities are being monitored and recorded by our own so called democratic regimes and private corporate interests outside democratic/peoples control.

  • @asterisk14 said:
    If you're using Windows 8 and above or an Android phone I don't even why these threads get started.

    Edward Snowden (refugee in Russia) and Julian Assange (political prisoner in UK's equivalent of Guantanamo) showed us that all our internet and phone activities are being monitored and recorded by our own so called democratic regimes and private corporate interests outside democratic/peoples control.

    You didn't pay much attention, it seems.

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