In terms of privacy, this is how the Searxes (meta of meta searches) compares to DDG, Startpage, and Mojeek:
| privacy factor |
DDG |
Startpage |
Mojeek |
Searxes |
| caught violating privacy policy |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
| bad track record (history of privacy abuse) |
yes (CEO founded Names DB) |
owned by targetted ad agency |
no |
|
| feeds other privacy abusers |
yes (Verizon-Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon, CloudFlare) |
yes (Google, CloudFlare) |
no |
no |
| privacy-hostile sites in search results |
yes |
yes |
yes (but appears less frequent than ddg) |
no (CloudFlare sites filtered out) |
| server code is open source |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
| has an onion site |
yes (but Tor-hostile results still given) |
no |
no |
yes |
| gives users a proxy or cache |
no |
yes (using Anonymous View feature) |
no |
yes (via the favicons) |
Superficially Metager is privacy respecting and there's even an .onion host for it. So I'll have to add it to the table in the future.
For the moment, I'll say that Metager shares the following with advertisers:
- first 2 blocks of your IP address
- user-agent string
- your search query
They say it's for non-personalised advertizing.
I can't see which post you're replying to. These thread lines are an optical illusion.
Antifa's method of activism is controversial
While there is nothing controversial about being anti-racist, Antifa is not simply anti-racist. It's the style of activism that's controversial. From wikipedia:
Petitioning for policy reform is relatively non-controversial. But that's not Antifa. Obviously some of the more extreme actions (e.g. violence and property destruction) are controversial - and Antifa is open to them.
Antifa's ideology is controversial
Components of Antifa ideology:
I can't even get my head around how it's possible to be both anti-capitalist and anarchist at the same time. Anarchy is also favored by the extreme right, and obviously anarchy is a recipe for pure uncontrolled capitalism -- most oppressive form of capitalism. What am I missing?
Lemmy censorship
In the case of lemmy.ml leadership, what we see is extreme censorship. We're not just talking censorship of trashy messages. I recently posted a thread on the status of the cock.li email servers, and it was censored because the word "cock" appeared in the domain name. (proof). Obviously it's essential to mention the domain name of the service we're talking about.
No one will care if racist msgs get censored, but any post that's incompatible with an anti-capitalist or anti-government viewpoint is also likely to be censored when you see how fast and loose they are with the censor trigger.