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And what alternative should i use if DuckDuckGo is a bad option...

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[โ€“] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry for the simplistic grid of analysis here:

DDG is a US company, and under the Patriot and FISA (and other) Acts, it makes it fair game for the US institutions to request access to any of its data regarding any of its user, without any sort of judicial process.

So in short if your concern is privacy (not even if you have any political activity that wouldnt be 100% aligned with the foreign policy of the US!) and are a NON-US person, then it's better to avoid connecting to the servers of any US company. Is it easy to do? hell no! we're probably talking about 90% of the web as of now... (think: AWS, Cloudflare, Google, etc.)

(+ i think DDG is hosted on AWS, and Amazon is a premium partner of US intelligence anyways..)

[โ€“] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

i think DDG is hosted on AWS

not that it makes much difference but the DDG domains i just checked are currently pointing at Microsoft-owned IP addresses