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DuckDuckGo Filters Search Results (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cooper@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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EDIT: Conversation here.

This is a relatively old story now, but I thought I would post about it, as I haven't seen anyone else do the same on this community.

For those that don't know, DuckDuckGo's CEO & founder Gabriel Weinberg posted the following on his Twitter:

Would love to know the community’s thoughts. Personally, I don't think this is a big deal - all search engines have to favour certain results over others... it's the intrinsic state of a search engine - although I know some people are rather upset.

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[–] stuckinconcrete@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dont understand the issue?

[–] cooper@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago

People are not happy at DDG filtering their web results as they feel they should be able to decide for themselves what is fake news and what is real.