Even though everything said by
Will Hill seems ridiculous.
There a few important points against DuckDuckgo
1.- Is non free and there are Libre options (like searx.me or YaCy) so there
is no point in recommend it.
2.- DuckDuckgo is located on the USA a country with masive surveillance, even
if duckduckgo does not stores data, it is in a country where services should
be seen carefully. This is the reason why https://www.privacytools.io/
removed it from its list.
See here for the discussion where even DuckDuckgo's CEO could not provide
more than his word ("you should trust us because we are trustable")
https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/84
3.- Onpon4 said that duckduckgo.com hasn't done anything wrong. Which is as
far as I know correct, yet, it is seen from the wrong perspective from my
point of view. Trust shoul be earned. If duckduckgo really cares about users
and privacy there is nothing stopping them to release their code and move
their servers outside USA and stop using anti-privacy anti-freedom
pro-monopolio amazon services.
A service that really cares about privacy does not go running into Amazon.
Even if they encrypt everything.
Because the reality is "we don't know what duckduckgo really does" they claim
don't store data they claim they don't send data to anyone but we can't know
and personally I can't defend a promise.
Specially if there are real libre options.
