doomslay

> But the most important feature is that DuckDuckGo is the search engine that doesn't track you.

Any evidence to suggest that most people care? Most people just want the best search results, quickly.

Or is this a conscious decision to keep DDG serving a 'niche'.

> and so at DuckDuckGo you are not the product, search is.

Is DuckDuckGo a paid for product then? Users pay to search do they? If it's ad (Or VC) supported, then the user very much IS the product.

The bigger problem is that Google use a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Instead of removing the videos, Google will shut down your whole google account - emails, google drive, docs, all gone - They'll do it without telling you, without recourse, no appeal, nothing. No chance of contacting a real person to discuss it.

It's so odd that the left who are so up in arms about 'fascism', white supremacists, trump etc, are the very people being violent, suppressing free speech, and behaving like fascists. It's especially a shame to see it so prevalent in Hollywood and Silicon Valley which should be bastions of freedom and expression.

God I hope not. People are already ridiculously detached from nature, we don't need to go even further away from nature.

I think there is a real movement and push back against all this political correctness and endless 'feelings' based discussion thankfully.

Cutting lego bricks? Eugh. There's specific bricks that would have worked exactly.

Not to pour water on things, but after 8 years or so I'm not sure it's growing that well...

After 6 years, Google was doing 200m searches a day.

Google now does something like 4 billion a day. So duckduckgo, after 8 years of growth, has captured about 0.3% of the search market. At that sort of rate, it'll take decades to get any meaningful share, and that's assuming Google stand still, which they won't.