If Ronald wanted they could sell their nuggets and fries in the freezer section of a supermarket. Then everone could enjoy the product of all their taste science at home.

Its capitalism that ruins it.

Duckduckgo -> selfhosted searxng… startpage has also not yet been involved in any controversy for a non selfhosted option.

Copy paste of why duck duck go is a problem:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/

Now I little after this came out they do claim they removed them (odd how that suddenly changes after it was no longer secret) But then much more recent as listed on wikipedia, verifying they still have some long term deals with microsoft in **2025**… microsoft is not going to make a deal with a perceived competitor for nothing in return.

By August 2025, Bing planned to cut off access to its search APIs in a push to sell more AI-related APIs, though **DuckDuckGo believed that larger companies like it with long-term deals would not be affected** 62 Bing had dramatically raised rates for its search API in 2022 after ChatGPT debuted. 62

There is also more general proof that while duck may technically use other sources also. It really is mostly bing:

During a Bing API outage in 2024, DuckDuckGo stopped showing results, indicating that Bing provided a substantial portion of DuckDuckGo’s results.69 70

I literally do not understand how they managed to take such foothold in real privacy communities. I used to love brave till the i was repeatedly pointed to the scandals that many people are aware of and informing others about… but considering ddg i rarely see anyone pointing this out. It actually smells like a huge successful marketing adventure to sell bing to privacy enthusiasts, but for that i obvio do not have proof. I often imagine this meme with bing instead of google and a cute duck go as mr incognito

What if you don’t have a webcam?

“For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives,”

Security is as good as the weakest link, either bots will exploit the accessibility feature making the webcam step for humans unnecessary… or its just as secure… making the webcam step unnecessary.

Blatent attempt to extract data from you and nothing more if you ask me.

I have no knowledge of this drama or hard feelings for your instance in either direction.

But was that ever a thing? I joined a month after you and there where options plenty.

Autistic people who need multiple weeks of scientific research into a new product to convince themselves to try it present!

Of course were not immune to all advertisement, especially others suggesting/recommending a product but everything i buy are the same products/brands i did 15 years ago. Or a researched alternative. Trying something new is the opposite of safe.

Not at all…

It just appears rather obvious from that text that Asetru their anger against op came from a very specific personal injustice done to them. Channeling it in such way where you direct anger at a demographic is toxic, regardless of gender.

I do disagree a lot with how op responded, they where over reacting in a similar way, i didn’t call them out because the longer this ordeal went on the more people seemed to prove that they have a real point to be frustrated about it.

You did prove the same thing. My comment isn’t gender specific, i don’t know what Astetru identifies as (thats part why i put the sir is in quotes) any gender can argue in favour of any gender. That is not that unusual.

And yet you perceived it as directed at one gender and came in with a “but what about the other gender”

I really didn’t want to believe that this “always happens” but the evidence here says it either is or this is targeted trolling against op.

It doesn’t say that it only applies to girls its a screencap of part of conversation from people we have little context about.

And “sir”

Shit like this makes my blood boil… "Trauma-dump”… Posting something here that deliberately leaves out half the population …

This is a shitpost community.

To be fair they said “5 minutes” but did not give a number of shots.

“s” implies at least 2, leaving some wiggle room that they where not accustomed to strong liquor and had trouble getting It down. 2 of them because they underestimate the effect of just one.

The result of this kind of infrastructure is torture.

Imagine having to downgrade your bed from being a cold large stone slab because some rich people who also own the empty building across the street decided to spend money to stop you from doing so.

Physical and mental torture. Definitely violence.

Or like the other comment mentioned, could now for the first communicate with His daughter and family.

This is a common stereotype but there is a reasonably sized group of Linux enthusiasts who work on macs.

Macos is a real unix based OS. (As opposed to unix compatible GNU “Gnu is Not Unix”) and they claim the performance (apples own chips), even in a vm is amazing.

I had at least one coworker who did this, i also remember Emily Young (Who some remember as Anthony from Ltt) also had quite a few apple products in her house.

How does piped compare to invidious?

I actually looked this up earlier today because i didn’t understand part of it.

An ssh key is, as i understand it, a way to encrypt the connection so only a device that has they key can unlock it.

There are 2 parts, a private key which should never be shared and a public one which can freely be shared.

You usually generate both keys on the device that connects to the ssh, keep the private key on there with the public key going on the server. Thats the part that confused me. (Why is the secret one not on the server i don’t want people to access)

But the way it works is that the public key is used to encrypt/lock something.And only the private key can unlock it.

Any other device that tries to connect just gets an encrypted connection they don’t have the key for. Because these keys are so long no current day tool can guess or crack them. So it is the absolute safest way to establish an ssh connection.

Quantum computers might in the future be able to break them but solutions for this are being worked on.

There are also some systems where you have 2 key pairs where the server also has a private key, to authenticate both ways.

I read this back in april,

The entire research were very nervous about doing this cause they essentially post misinformation. So they filled it to the brim with clear signs that its fake, tons of pop culture references and nonsensical wording.

… Fair

That would be ok if it wasn’t a lie.

Which for duck it definitely was for years, and considering they still have a long term deal with microsoft, still is.

I have another reply in this thread somewhere that lists my sources.

But here is another I hadn’t listed. (Source used by Wikipedia)

“One of the bigger customers that is unaffected for now is the search engine DuckDuckGo, company spokesperson Kamyl Bazbaz confirmed to WIRED. “They’re retiring the self-serve version,” Bazbaz says. Brown says Brave’s understanding is that companies that have inked private and long-term deals with Microsoft will maintain access to the APIs.”

Just ask yourself, what does Microsoft get out of it? If for the first decade at least it contractually includes free passage from bing and linkedin trackers.

I have used “#@%!!” Before like some comics do while playing a moba. I am over 3 decades old.

I want to express some frustration but also signal to not take it too seriously. Its just a game, i am not actually mad. If a game makes you mad you should stop playing.

Kids might also be playing the same game and while i am not afraid to “hurt” them with swears i do thing it helps create a more friendly atmosphere not to start “flaming” every time things don’t go as hoped. At the same time communicating frustration in the game is a way to cope as a team, and maybe change strategy.

I also thinks its just way more funny and there is some creativity in making the different symbols look good as a set.

But it does entice people to act surprised and ask “if i am too young to swear” or something. Do they prefer if i was actually mad and cursing? Do they think some actual mad child is going out their way to censor themselves in the heat of moment?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/

Now I little after this came out they do claim they removed them (odd how that suddenly changes after it was no longer secret)

But then much more recent as listed on wikipedia, verifying they still have some long term deals with microsoft in 2025… microsoft is not going to make a deal with a perceived competitor for nothing in return.

By August 2025, Bing planned to cut off access to its search APIs in a push to sell more AI-related APIs, though DuckDuckGo believed that larger companies like it with long-term deals would not be affected.[62] Bing had dramatically raised rates for its search API in 2022 after ChatGPT debuted.[62]

There is also more general proof that while duck may technically use other sources also. It really is mostly bing:

During a Bing API outage in 2024, DuckDuckGo stopped showing results, indicating that Bing provided a substantial portion of DuckDuckGo’s results.[69][70]

I literally do not understand how they managed to take such foothold in real privacy communities. I used to love brave till the i was repeatedly pointed to the scandals that many people are aware of and informing others about… but considering ddg i rarely see anyone pointing this out. It actually smells like a huge successful marketing adventure to sell bing to privacy enthusiasts, but for that i obvio do not have proof.

I often imagine this meme with bing instead of google and a cute duck go as mr incognito

Lol, it’s littered with predatory ads.

I appreciate the attempt but self hosting searxng is free, has no ads and

You can include presearch results as part of your searxng results, its already listed by default

Brave nor duck duck go can be trusted.

Brave has been known to inject their own referral links in people urls.

Duck duck go serves bing results and has to give Microsoft special acces to do so.

The actual alternatives are:

Firefox based browsers (waterfox, librefox)

Self hosted searxng for search-engine. This one will get results from all possible configurable engine and allow zero trackers.

Notable mention: self hosting isn’t for everyone, startpage.net is to google what ddg is to bing, but it hasn’t had any scandals proving that they give special acces to google yet. Still self hosting is not that hard with docker, i do recommend a local searxng.