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As writing this DuckDuckGo.com is the favored search in Pure OS / PureBrowser. With this comes trust issue because of several reasons: # Based in US; US laws give the US government the authority to compel a legitimate privacy-focused company into a data collector for state agencies. (surveillance programs, being prohibited from disclosing due to lawful data collection) # Servers are hostet by Amazon in US. (data collection by PRISM) # Started by Gabriel Weinberg (sold Names Database of the so called social network, including all the user data). DDG is privately held and also backed by various VC investors. # Stores all search queries. # Has not been audited. See: DuckDuckGo vs Startpage: https://restoreprivacy.com/private-search-engine/ At times i am also user of DDG cause usability is great. But putting it default for world-wide usage questionable. Examples for better alternatives are: https://startpage.com/ (Netherlands) https://metager.org/ (Germany) https://www.qwant.com/ (France) or https://lite.qwant.com/

As writing this DuckDuckGo.com is the favored search in Firefox ESR on Pure OS. With this comes trust issue because of several reasons: # Based in US; US laws give the US government the authority to compel a legitimate privacy-focused company into a data collector for state agencies. (surveillance programs, being prohibited from disclosing due to lawful data collection) # Servers are hostet by Amazon in US. (data collection by PRISM) # Started by Gabriel Weinberg (sold Names Database of the so called social network, including all the user data). DDG is privately held and also backed by various VC investors. # Stores all search queries. # Has not been audited. See: DuckDuckGo vs Startpage: https://restoreprivacy.com/private-search-engine/ At times i am also user of DDG cause usability is great. But putting it default for world-wide usage questionable. Examples for better alternatives are: https://startpage.com/ (Netherlands) https://metager.org/ (Germany) https://www.qwant.com/ (France) or https://lite.qwant.com/

As writing this DuckDuckGo.com is the favored search in Pure OS /Firefox ESR on PureBrowser OS. With this comes trust issue because of several reasons: # Based in US; US laws give the US government the authority to compel a legitimate privacy-focused company into a data collector for state agencies. (surveillance programs, being prohibited from disclosing due to lawful data collection) # Servers are hostet by Amazon in US. (data collection by PRISM) # Started by Gabriel Weinberg (sold Names Database of the so called social network, including all the user data). DDG is privately held and also backed by various VC investors. # Stores all search queries. # Has not been audited. See: DuckDuckGo vs Startpage: https://restoreprivacy.com/private-search-engine/ At times i am also user of DDG cause usability is great. But putting it default for world-wide usage questionable. Examples for better alternatives are: https://startpage.com/ (Netherlands) https://metager.org/ (Germany) https://www.qwant.com/ (France) or https://lite.qwant.com/