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Why you should go to DuckDuckGo and totally ignore Google.

I use https everywhere and three other extensions privacy badger, ghostery, and ublock origin. I have been using duckduckgo for five years.
 
I hope others can see that. They can hate Trump all they like, but realize that tomorrow it's going to be YOU.

I only see a badly made up conspiracy-esque webpage.

As for "it can happen to you..." if you're referencing censorship, it already has. *shrugs* I lived. It sucks yes, but freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences.

As for Duck Duck Go, uncensored and private searche engines should always be available as long as our democracy has even the faintest sign of a pulse left. I hope that continues, and Duck Duck Go is an excellent one.
 
I only see a badly made up conspiracy-esque webpage.

As for "it can happen to you..." if you're referencing censorship, it already has. *shrugs* I lived.

If you're really that OK with it, then I'm fine playing along. I only support civil freedoms because that's what I thought people like you wanted. If I'm suddenly in a world where people care less, then fine. I'm sensitive to whatever you go with. But if average (especially secular) folks start pushing censorship themselves, then all bets are off. It's changing the rules and opening Pandora's box. Then I myself will ally with my own likeminded folks (mainly Orthodox and Catholics and other traditionalists who never enjoyed liberal values in the first place), who inevitability will ally with Muslim and Hindu bros.. and society will get censored back into Old World levels again. And don't think that won't happen or that a heavily censored society will ever stay the secular route for long. They're the not ones who are breeding. Eventually traditionalists will grab the levers of power and form it in their image.

I'd prefer you actually care though. Then none of this happens at all. I could live with the results, but not many could.
 
If you're really that OK with it

I'm not as a user, but see no need for government to tell private enterprise what to do. That, and I just like a side of facts and foundation with my conspiracy. Google has done enough without hookey pokey webpages claiming to have "insider knowledge." We don't need that. Google admits what they have done for all to see and that's damning enough.

As for governmental policy, well, I feel we have far more to worry about than googles behavior there...

So use another search engine.
 
MS needs a good browser for businesses. One they can shape for their O365 services, and one that gives corporate control and support. Google already has a history of messing with MS on the web.

Right now, I have IE, FF, Chrome, and Edge on my work machine. Some intranet stuff will only work on one of the above. It’s a real treat, I tell ya.

Sounds very familiar. I usually have 2 or 3 different browsers open just to make sure the sessions are separated as well, or you might just end up with some very strange refreshes of pages :D

The browsers that are most consistent across all web based content are Chrome and FF - and not just a little bit. Edge also still has its issues in some places, but that is mostly not on Edge but on lacking support for Edge, which in turn sorta makes sense given the market share. And IE... yeah, if all else fails, that tends to happen after all, and is a great excuse to get a cup of coffee while it loads :D

If you're really that OK with it, then I'm fine playing along. I only support civil freedoms because that's what I thought people like you wanted. If I'm suddenly in a world where people care less, then fine. I'm sensitive to whatever you go with. But if average (especially secular) folks start pushing censorship themselves, then all bets are off. It's changing the rules and opening Pandora's box. Then I myself will ally with my own likeminded folks (mainly Orthodox and Catholics and other traditionalists who never enjoyed liberal values in the first place), who inevitability will ally with Muslim and Hindu bros.. and society will get censored back into Old World levels again. And don't think that won't happen or that a heavily censored society will ever stay the secular route for long. They're the not ones who are breeding. Eventually traditionalists will grab the levers of power and form it in their image.

I'd prefer you actually care though. Then none of this happens at all. I could live with the results, but not many could.

Those conspiracy pages are in fact part of the problem of today. They add to the mountains of (often conflicting) information that's out there. Its just another web page and its credibility leaves much to be desired. It has the opposite effect of what it wants to achieve and it dives right into the troll-heavy Trump debate.

That tells me enough: AVOID.

What I am missing is for people to take a step back and consider what they're really looking at. Media-wisdom, if you will. Recognizing solid sources and questionable ones. Thát is what is really going to bring progress and make people aware. Some whisteblowing is symptomatic and does very little in the grand scheme of things. It takes Snowden-levels of whisteblowing to even make a tiny dent.

Its the same idea as 'give a man a fish and feed him for a day...' - you need to teach people how to fish. And I hate to say this, but the US has cultivated a population and level of intelligence wrt this subject that is frightening. You say 'I thought that is what people like you wanted'... man, you're already way too late if you start worrying now. The fact that Trump got to the office the way he did, on the back of email scandals and Twitter, is the perfect proof of how rotten the US media and its receivers have become. Consider for a moment that POTUS is using 'fake news' as an argument of defense while being the biggest promotor of fake news himself. This is the guy with nuclear launch codes by the way - trolling the world through Twitter.

And I'm afraid that influence has also gained ground over here, we see it every day and those traditionalists and old powers are already on the rise. Erdogan in Turkey and Putin in Russia, hell even Kim in North Korea has gained strength because of the recent talks, recent bills being passed tightening up abortion laws... and note, it is exactly Trump and his right wing evangelist movement, Tea Party extremist views that drive that. The US has a Christian fundamentalist problem and I'm glad you recognize it. These people thrive on conflict and the ingredients are right there waiting. Bolton is another one of those guys that just love to see the world burn to gain influence. You can look at him for the recent Iran events.

Sorry for the direct delivery but when you're in the middle of this, I think you're not even capable of seeing how deep inside the rabbit hole you already are. The fact you linked that page should be an eye opener to you - not the content of it. This problem is integrated in your society and it infects the world outside of it as well, I doubt its even possible to yank it out again.
 
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I use DDG on all my devices. I find their !Bang feature incredibly powerful and useful.

I still use Google for looking up very specific things, such as searching for something that I know has happened quite recently in my local area. Google is very powerful in this regard, but I'll route a Google search indirectly through DDG using the !g bang.

For general searches, DDG is fine though, with the added benefit of it not creeping on you or skewing search results.

Likewise. It creeps me out that ads are based on what I searched/browsed recently, and at least have no worries like that with DDG.
 
I tried DDG and the interface is butt-ugly. I think (it's been a while) the results I got were somewhat useless too.
 
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I tried DDG and the interface is butt-ugly. I think (it's been a while) the results I got were somewhat useless too.
Like bing, the usage of DDG can be rather bad locally, i havent had any issues with search here in Denmark.
 
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The search results are always going to be less refined with DDG. But its good to keep in mind the reason why - and also the advantages of a more 'neutral' search algorithm. It keeps ya sane.

I tried DDG and the interface is butt-ugly. I think (it's been a while) the results I got were somewhat useless too.

The interface can be edited, it looks a lot like Google these days, sans the special boxes they use to put information in focus for you depending on the type of content (for example the google Translate box, the 'main subject' box etc.)
 
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