Conservative website Breitbart said DuckDuckGo was “adopting the censorship policies” of Big Tech. “Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create,” he wrote.ĭuckDuckGo has little control over its search results because they are provided by Microsoft’s Bing, which announced that it would follow the European Union’s order to restrict access to Russian state news agencies RT and Sputnik.īut the criticism from the far right was directed at DuckDuckGo.
#StandWithUkraine️Īt DuckDuckGo, we’ve been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation. Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. These three simple changes will pretty seamlessly and significantly reduce your digital footprint.DuckDuckGo’s chief executive, Gabriel Weinberg, tweeted Thursday that the search engine would rank websites “associated with disinformation” lower in its search results. What is the way forward, in your view, for companies and Internet users who care about their privacy online?įor Internet users, here are three easy steps to more online privacy: Switch your search engine, email and other major services where your personal information is heavily tracked to good private alternatives add EFF's HTTPS Everywhere plugin to your browser, which will encrypt web site connections where possible add EFF's Privacy Badger plugin to your browser, which blocks third-party trackers. Beyond the obvious issues with government surveillance, there are significant issues with corporate surveillance, for example, ads that follow you around the Internet and getting charged individualized prices based on questionable data profiles. Online tracking is a worldwide issue, and people everywhere have realised that they do not want to be tracked. Which countries/regions is DuckDuckGo looking to expand to? How important is the cultural notion of privacy if and when you look at a new market? We're looking into expanding into India and are actively seeking partnerships with smartphone makers. Our top three meetup groups are all in India! While India doesn't make up a large part of our traffic, we have hundreds of developers that are part of our developer community helping build out Instant Answers on DuckDuckGo. How many users do you have from India? Are there plans to expand into India in the near future, given that it is a rapidly expanding Internet community?
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