I’m just curious about it. I’d like feedback
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I use it, have for years. It isn't perfect but it does work very well for me. People sometimes say they are not getting search results they like from it, and I have seen what I considered to be weird returns myself.... so when any search engine does that rephrase your query, come at it from a different direction. I mean, you should do that anyway just to check perspectives and allow yourself opportunity to gather additional data...
How you frame your searches determines a lot, and DDG will often reference 'wherever' you are at the moment or your own recent sites visited, ignore those obviously.
I like it over the others I have tried. Use a VPN but again you should always be doing that, and I use Brave but it is not very kosher really, it suffices but has issues such as pushing crypto. With that combo I get good results, people will sometimes ask me where I am seeing stuff because my searches bring up things their google doesn't or their bing doesn't or whatever.
Regardless of the engine tho, HOW you search matters greatly. Sometimes you can move your VPN to look as if you are in another country and get different results on the exact same wording of a search for instance.
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???. It’s odd you posted that after I got warning from it??? so i May be tripping but it’s odd that DDG tracked when I used it to come here. That’s ehile reason for my post.
Yeah, it skims a lot of returns, and always remember that EVERY single keystroke you make on any platform, no matter your security, is clocked. At a minimum the metadata is captured but I'd bet not just in metadata form.
That's why you want a VPN, it prevents amateurs/bots and most people who would abuse you from 'seeing' your IP address accurately. So while the data is captured it is made to look like some other computer. Pros, the FBI and their minions, can get through that but they can get through anything, the VPN does protect you from casual attacks.
If you use a VPN some sites may deny you access at first, always check and make sure your VPN shows as in America or it could trigger censorships. That sounds terrible but it isn't onery, and sometimes your VPN may glitch or drop out and then sites see youer computer differently again and that can cause confusion. Just reboot the VPN and you're good to go. That happens to me some because I have primitive service out in these woods...it may never happen to you.
Protonmail will offer you a free VPN, I use their mail too because it is pretty good at keeping you protected.
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Ok thank you very much
I don't see hov VPN provides any privacy.
All it does is forward your internet traffic under a different IP address. The VPN provider still has your details and that would make providing a VPN service an excellent way to trap users who want to remain private in a VPN honeypot, would it not?
Also, they could sell on your data and you would never know.
You're looking for TOR or an onion router sounds like.
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Oh. I didn’t know there’s such a thing for my phone