In comparison: Do you remember the controversy about UbuntuOne service? It's like the difference between that and OwnCloud: OwnCloud is "the lesser of the evils around" when talking about filesharing or multiplatform file service.
Giving the possibility of running your own service node is a (small?) freedom warranty about the hosted source code. It's better AGPL than DDG-Unknown-License, and the service design is made by a transparent project. An important question is: In what direction we want to walk to? There are a lot of other situations not so easy like this one, when a lot of people have developed good and friendly solutions. El 10/03/15 a les 10:42, Jonas Wielicki ha escrit: > On 10.03.2015 10:16, Narcis Garcia wrote: >> I've not analyzed deeply DDG but, when I perform a search, In don't see >> shown URLs in HTML code. It can mean that is when user clicks on each >> link that this URL is built (It can have some sense to track what users >> do and where they go). > > I do not understand what you mean here. I find the URLs in both the > plain-HTML and the JS version of DDG. Note that in the JS version, the > results are loaded kind of on-demand, so they probably won’t appear when > wgetting. > > Also, in the JS version, links are redirected just before they are > followed by the browser to a de-referrer service of DDG, which hides > your search query from the site you are going to. > >> Additionally, DDG results include (and put on top) other things not >> asked or priorized by user, > > That is, in my opinion, a feature. Many of my DDG requests are > successful due to that priorization. And they claim that it works > without filter bubbling, so they’re doing quite a great job at that. > >> and tracked with add.ddg.gg > > ddg claims that they are not tracking. Now it is possible that IceCat > and/or you and/or ddg have different notions of what "tracking" means. > Reading through their statement on what information they collect [1], it > seems pretty reasonable though. > > > Also, you can turn both, the "quick result bar" at the top and the > redirection of requests, off in the settings when using the JS version > (in the non-JS version, they both are not used). Which are probably > stored in a cookie, which would, in theory, again allow certain > tracking. The question is, whether DDG does that. We can’t really know. > But that is an issue of *any* web service; tracking is not limited to > JavaScript and Cookies. > > I think that DDG is, if at all, the lesser of the evils around here. A > service under the AGPL would probably be preferable, but then again, is > there a way to actually verify that the service runs the code it claims > to run, and not a version with patched-in analytics? > > With the JS issue, has anyone asked DDG to make their JS libre? > > regards, > jwi > > [1]: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy#s4 > >> >> It's still very strange to see DDG as a default tool in a project like >> GnuZilla. >> >> >> >> >> El 10/03/15 a les 09:28, Svetlana A. Tkachenko ha escrit: >>>> It seems the same matter as using Google or any other abusive service. >>> >>> There are two types of abuse from Google, tracking its users and non-free >>> js. From DDG there is only one, and the HTML version technically has >>> neither, unless the user is clever enough to click or type through to its >>> homepage. >>> >>> Svetlana >>> >>> -- >>> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >>> >> >> -- >> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >> > > > > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org > -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
