#duckduckgo — Public Fediverse posts

I’m trying out the #DuckDuckGo #DDG subscription (for the #VPN), but it seems that they don’t support #Linux #Ubuntu??? 🥲

Mais quel est le fuck, vraiment ?! #DuckDuckGo #Bullshit

@sewblue maybe Duck Duck Go is your problem.

Results from <https://www.google.com/search?q=gutters+Brighton&udm=14> in a private browsing window look good to me. I clicked through to more than five of the top results.

#DuckDuckGo #AI #slop #aislop

@sewblue maybe Duck Duck Go is your problem.

Results from <https://www.google.com/search?q=gutters+Brighton&udm=14> in a private browsing window look good to me. I clicked through to more than five of the top results.

#DuckDuckGo #AI #slop #aislop

@sewblue maybe Duck Duck Go is your problem.

Results from <https://www.google.com/search?q=gutters+Brighton&udm=14> in a private browsing window look good to me. I clicked through to more than five of the top results.

#DuckDuckGo #AI #slop #aislop

@sewblue maybe Duck Duck Go is your problem.

Results from <https://www.google.com/search?q=gutters+Brighton&udm=14> in a private browsing window look good to me. I clicked through to more than five of the top results.

#DuckDuckGo #AI #slop #aislop

@sewblue maybe Duck Duck Go is your problem.

Results from <https://www.google.com/search?q=gutters+Brighton&udm=14> in a private browsing window look good to me. I clicked through to more than five of the top results.

#DuckDuckGo #AI #slop #aislop

ちなみにアヒル隊長🪿で有名な #DuckDuckGo も Ecosia よりちょっ多いくらいであんまり検索結果にはヒットしてこなかった

GOODBYE MY LOVER

Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
…
So I took what’s mine by eternal right
Took your soul out into the night
…
I’ve been addicted to you
…
Goodbye my lover
Goodbye my friend
You have been the one
You have been the one for me

Joined on December 2006. Left on July 2026. “It’s been 20 years and I still remember” the small number of friends, the activity feed and the field “Relationship Status”. Was “The Facebook” a ship of dreams? Well, many people found their significant other there.

Facebook was the one for me – I never got that much into the Instagram, Twitter or Tik-Tok. Most of all, I was falling in and out of love there, good memories.

How did we get here? Today I read in the DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly newsletter:

Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion over the next decade to settle a landmark child safety lawsuit brought by 29 state attorneys general; it’s now the largest state consumer-protection settlement outside of the tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The suit alleged Meta intentionally designed Instagram with addictive features that harmed younger users, while misleading the public about the platform’s safety.
…
The settlement is part of a growing wave of Big Tech accountability: in the past four years alone, Meta, Google, and TikTok have collectively paid billions to settle privacy and child safety cases.

I hope people understand that there are no money in the world that could “pay” the karma. This is pretty serious. Since this “children vs. social” topic is flying around, I was a bit envy and was asking myself – who thought about the children who were online back in the 90s? WHO was not online back then and WHO was? Technology is not bad, screens are not bad, but there could be bad and greedy (for money and data) people crafting the tools and the content. I do even feel ashamed that I am part of this industry. A technical achievement, becomes an advertising agency… Complete Tragedy! Could I take some responsibility and say, “Please, accept our apologies for all the evil.” This happened, because there was a sentence “Don’t be evil!” which even the little children know from the stove that it means “BE evil!”. [=

Since I stopped scrolling in Facebook, I feel like I woke up. Got back to the retro of Internetting. Started some new personal projects, including my Omnia which I proudly decided to host at Vivaldi.net. However, today I received a thought – did I left Facebook by choice or Facebook pushed me away? After everything it knows about me… 20 years. Am I sad as a user or disappointed as an artechie woman?

Sorry and goodbye, bloody Alg. It’s over. No more trials. Testing complete. Project dismissed.

🎶🎶🎶

https://open.spotify.com/track/6gxycjJNMgmAyfzUXBN80P?si=f0142a649fbb4bdb

@vmsh.xyz

GOODBYE MY LOVER

Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
…
So I took what’s mine by eternal right
Took your soul out into the night
…
I’ve been addicted to you
…
Goodbye my lover
Goodbye my friend
You have been the one
You have been the one for me

Joined on December 2006. Left on July 2026. “It’s been 20 years and I still remember” the small number of friends, the activity feed and the field “Relationship Status”. Was “The Facebook” a ship of dreams? Well, many people found their significant other there.

Facebook was the one for me – I never got that much into the Instagram, Twitter or Tik-Tok. Most of all, I was falling in and out of love there, good memories.

How did we get here? Today I read in the DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly newsletter:

Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion over the next decade to settle a landmark child safety lawsuit brought by 29 state attorneys general; it’s now the largest state consumer-protection settlement outside of the tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The suit alleged Meta intentionally designed Instagram with addictive features that harmed younger users, while misleading the public about the platform’s safety.
…
The settlement is part of a growing wave of Big Tech accountability: in the past four years alone, Meta, Google, and TikTok have collectively paid billions to settle privacy and child safety cases.

I hope people understand that there are no money in the world that could “pay” the karma. This is pretty serious. Since this “children vs. social” topic is flying around, I was a bit envy and was asking myself – who thought about the children who were online back in the 90s? WHO was not online back then and WHO was? Technology is not bad, screens are not bad, but there could be bad and greedy (for money and data) people crafting the tools and the content. I do even feel ashamed that I am part of this industry. A technical achievement, becomes an advertising agency… Complete Tragedy! Could I take some responsibility and say, “Please, accept our apologies for all the evil.” This happened, because there was a sentence “Don’t be evil!” which even the little children know from the stove that it means “BE evil!”. [=

Since I stopped scrolling in Facebook, I feel like I woke up. Got back to the retro of Internetting. Started some new personal projects, including my Omnia which I proudly decided to host at Vivaldi.net. However, today I received a thought – did I left Facebook by choice or Facebook pushed me away? After everything it knows about me… 20 years. Am I sad as a user or disappointed as an artechie woman?

Sorry and goodbye, bloody Alg. It’s over. No more trials. Testing complete. Project dismissed.

🎶🎶🎶

https://open.spotify.com/track/6gxycjJNMgmAyfzUXBN80P?si=f0142a649fbb4bdb

@vmsh.xyz

GOODBYE MY LOVER

Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
…
So I took what’s mine by eternal right
Took your soul out into the night
…
I’ve been addicted to you
…
Goodbye my lover
Goodbye my friend
You have been the one
You have been the one for me

Joined on December 2006. Left on July 2026. “It’s been 20 years and I still remember” the small number of friends, the activity feed and the field “Relationship Status”. Was “The Facebook” a ship of dreams? Well, many people found their significant other there.

Facebook was the one for me – I never got that much into the Instagram, Twitter or Tik-Tok. Most of all, I was falling in and out of love there, good memories.

How did we get here? Today I read in the DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly newsletter:

Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion over the next decade to settle a landmark child safety lawsuit brought by 29 state attorneys general; it’s now the largest state consumer-protection settlement outside of the tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The suit alleged Meta intentionally designed Instagram with addictive features that harmed younger users, while misleading the public about the platform’s safety.
…
The settlement is part of a growing wave of Big Tech accountability: in the past four years alone, Meta, Google, and TikTok have collectively paid billions to settle privacy and child safety cases.

I hope people understand that there are no money in the world that could “pay” the karma. This is pretty serious. Since this “children vs. social” topic is flying around, I was a bit envy and was asking myself – who thought about the children who were online back in the 90s? WHO was not online back then and WHO was? Technology is not bad, screens are not bad, but there could be bad and greedy (for money and data) people crafting the tools and the content. I do even feel ashamed that I am part of this industry. A technical achievement, becomes an advertising agency… Complete Tragedy! Could I take some responsibility and say, “Please, accept our apologies for all the evil.” This happened, because there was a sentence “Don’t be evil!” which even the little children know from the stove that it means “BE evil!”. [=

Since I stopped scrolling in Facebook, I feel like I woke up. Got back to the retro of Internetting. Started some new personal projects, including my Omnia which I proudly decided to host at Vivaldi.net. However, today I received a thought – did I left Facebook by choice or Facebook pushed me away? After everything it knows about me… 20 years. Am I sad as a user or disappointed as an artechie woman?

Sorry and goodbye, bloody Alg. It’s over. No more trials. Testing complete. Project dismissed.

🎶🎶🎶

https://open.spotify.com/track/6gxycjJNMgmAyfzUXBN80P?si=f0142a649fbb4bdb

@vmsh.xyz

GOODBYE MY LOVER

Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
…
So I took what’s mine by eternal right
Took your soul out into the night
…
I’ve been addicted to you
…
Goodbye my lover
Goodbye my friend
You have been the one
You have been the one for me

Joined on December 2006. Left on July 2026. “It’s been 20 years and I still remember” the small number of friends, the activity feed and the field “Relationship Status”. Was “The Facebook” a ship of dreams? Well, many people found their significant other there.

Facebook was the one for me – I never got that much into the Instagram, Twitter or Tik-Tok. Most of all, I was falling in and out of love there, good memories.

How did we get here? Today I read in the DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly newsletter:

Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion over the next decade to settle a landmark child safety lawsuit brought by 29 state attorneys general; it’s now the largest state consumer-protection settlement outside of the tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The suit alleged Meta intentionally designed Instagram with addictive features that harmed younger users, while misleading the public about the platform’s safety.
…
The settlement is part of a growing wave of Big Tech accountability: in the past four years alone, Meta, Google, and TikTok have collectively paid billions to settle privacy and child safety cases.

I hope people understand that there are no money in the world that could “pay” the karma. This is pretty serious. Since this “children vs. social” topic is flying around, I was a bit envy and was asking myself – who thought about the children who were online back in the 90s? WHO was not online back then and WHO was? Technology is not bad, screens are not bad, but there could be bad and greedy (for money and data) people crafting the tools and the content. I do even feel ashamed that I am part of this industry. A technical achievement, becomes an advertising agency… Complete Tragedy! Could I take some responsibility and say, “Please, accept our apologies for all the evil.” This happened, because there was a sentence “Don’t be evil!” which even the little children know from the stove that it means “BE evil!”. [=

Since I stopped scrolling in Facebook, I feel like I woke up. Got back to the retro of Internetting. Started some new personal projects, including my Omnia which I proudly decided to host at Vivaldi.net. However, today I received a thought – did I left Facebook by choice or Facebook pushed me away? After everything it knows about me… 20 years. Am I sad as a user or disappointed as an artechie woman?

Sorry and goodbye, bloody Alg. It’s over. No more trials. Testing complete. Project dismissed.

🎶🎶🎶

https://open.spotify.com/track/6gxycjJNMgmAyfzUXBN80P?si=f0142a649fbb4bdb

@vmsh.xyz

GOODBYE MY LOVER

Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
…
So I took what’s mine by eternal right
Took your soul out into the night
…
I’ve been addicted to you
…
Goodbye my lover
Goodbye my friend
You have been the one
You have been the one for me

Joined on December 2006. Left on July 2026. “It’s been 20 years and I still remember” the small number of friends, the activity feed and the field “Relationship Status”. Was “The Facebook” a ship of dreams? Well, many people found their significant other there.

Facebook was the one for me – I never got that much into the Instagram, Twitter or Tik-Tok. Most of all, I was falling in and out of love there, good memories.

How did we get here? Today I read in the DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly newsletter:

Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion over the next decade to settle a landmark child safety lawsuit brought by 29 state attorneys general; it’s now the largest state consumer-protection settlement outside of the tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The suit alleged Meta intentionally designed Instagram with addictive features that harmed younger users, while misleading the public about the platform’s safety.
…
The settlement is part of a growing wave of Big Tech accountability: in the past four years alone, Meta, Google, and TikTok have collectively paid billions to settle privacy and child safety cases.

I hope people understand that there are no money in the world that could “pay” the karma. This is pretty serious. Since this “children vs. social” topic is flying around, I was a bit envy and was asking myself – who thought about the children who were online back in the 90s? WHO was not online back then and WHO was? Technology is not bad, screens are not bad, but there could be bad and greedy (for money and data) people crafting the tools and the content. I do even feel ashamed that I am part of this industry. A technical achievement, becomes an advertising agency… Complete Tragedy! Could I take some responsibility and say, “Please, accept our apologies for all the evil.” This happened, because there was a sentence “Don’t be evil!” which even the little children know from the stove that it means “BE evil!”. [=

Since I stopped scrolling in Facebook, I feel like I woke up. Got back to the retro of Internetting. Started some new personal projects, including my Omnia which I proudly decided to host at Vivaldi.net. However, today I received a thought – did I left Facebook by choice or Facebook pushed me away? After everything it knows about me… 20 years. Am I sad as a user or disappointed as an artechie woman?

Sorry and goodbye, bloody Alg. It’s over. No more trials. Testing complete. Project dismissed.

🎶🎶🎶

https://open.spotify.com/track/6gxycjJNMgmAyfzUXBN80P?si=f0142a649fbb4bdb

@vmsh.xyz

#LLRX #CyberSecurity @bespacific

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 29, 2026

Five highlights from this week: #DuckDuckGo Survey Reveals Just How Personal #AI Conversations Have Become; What Every Search Engine Really Knows About You; Inside the Warehouse Where #Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training; #Expired credit cards revived by researchers to make unauthorized payments; and #Microsoft365 Teams now lets admins block external #bots from meetings.

Posted in: AI, Big Data, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Email Security, Search Strategies

https://www.llrx.com/2026/08/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-august-29-2026/

This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.

It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

The big news this week was obviously The European Commission’s European Technological Sovereignty Package. So, there’s much more […]

Back in the day, we had #deleteFacebook, #deleteMeta, #deleteWhatsApp, and so on.

Some people heeded the call for a while, only to quietly return to Big Tech later on.

Now, many have been jolted awake by our dependence on Big Tech, and another #quitday and other variations are gaining momentum.

Personally, I started that journey years ago.

- From Gmail to #ProtonMail and #Tuta
- From Google to #Searx #Startpage #DuckDuckGo
- From Chrome to #Brave #Mulvad and #LibreWolf
- From MS Office to #LibreOffice
- From Google Drive to #NextCloud and #Synology
- From Facebook to #MeWe and #Mastodon
- From Windows to #Linux
- From WhatsApp to #Threema #Signal #Jami and #Matrix #Element
- From Zoom to #Jitsi and #ProtonMeet
- From Google Translate to #Deepl

I’m sure I’m forgetting a few, but there’s a European and open-source alternative for every American Big Tech and closed-source application.

What I’ve noticed is that many people are afraid of what they don’t know and therefore don’t dare to make the switch (completely).
(Some people just don’t give a damn and convenience is all that matters)

Any fear is unfounded, and if all of us switches en masse, Big Tech’s power will be quickly broken, and the development of alternatives will proceed much more smoothly and quickly.

Vroeger hadden we #deleteFacebook #deleteMeta #deleteWhatsApp en noem maar op.

Sommigen gaven daar even gehoor aan om later toch stilletjes terug te keren naar Big Tec.

Nu werden velen even wakker geschud door onze afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse Big Tec en komt er weer een #doeidag en andere varianten op gang.

Persoonlijk ben ik die reis al jaren geleden begonnen.

- Van Gmail naar #ProtonMail en #Tuta
- Van Google naar #Searx #Startpage #DuckDuckGo
- Van chrome naar #Brave #Mulvad en #LibreWolf
- Van MS Office naar #LibreOffice
- Van Google Drive naar #NextCloud en #Synology
- Van Facebook naar #MeWe en #Mastodon
- Van Windows naar #Linux
- Van Whatsapp naar #Threema #Signal #Jami en #Matrix #Element
- Van Zoom naar #Jitsi en #ProtonMeet
- Van Google Translate naar #Deepl

Ik vergeet er vast nog een paar, maar er is voor elke Amerikaanse en Closed Source toepassing wel een Europees en Open Source alternatief.

Wat ik merk is dat veel mensen bang zijn voor dat wat ze niet kennen en daarom niet (geheel) durven over te stappen.
(sommigen interesseerd het gewoon geen reet en is gemak het enige dat telt)

Eventuele angst is ongegrond en als we met heel Europa massaal overstappen is de macht van Big Tec snel gebroken en verloopt de ontwikkeling van alternatieven veel soepeler en sneller.

Wusstet ihr, dass sich das Logo von DuckDuckGo bei der Suche nach "Linux" verändert und die Ente sich in einen Pinguin verwandelt? PenguinPenguinGo!

#linux #duckduckgo #pinguin #easteregg

DuckDuckGo CEO criticizes Google antitrust remedies as insufficient: Gabriel Weinberg condemns court-ordered measures as inadequate to address search monopoly, claims Google will continue blocking competitors including AI search platforms. https://ppc.land/duckduckgo-ceo-criticizes-google-antitrust-remedies-as-insufficient/ #DuckDuckGo #GoogleAntitrust #SearchMonopoly #TechNews #AIethics

Qwacky, un client open source per gestire gli alias di DuckDuckGo

Qwacky è un’estensione open source non ufficiale per gestire le email private di DuckDuckGo (dominio @duck.com) in modo semplice e sicuro.

https://www.lealternative.net/2025/02/19/qwacky-un-client-open-source-per-gestire-gli-alias-di-duckduckgo/

Searching for Für Elise on Duck Duck Go gives the Wikipedia article with a nice summary as the featured result. Just below is just a regular search result pointing to the same article with a strange summary.

> Für Elise is nearly universally featured on ringtone websites.

Are ringtone websites still a thing?

#Wikipedia
#DuckDuckGo
#Ringtones

I often hold back on disclosing privacy tips because privacy advocates are so far outnumbered that it seems more likely that privacy adversaries will take action to thwart or shut down the angle / hack or facility.

Among the tiny demographic of privacy proponents almost none of them are committed to privacy. Trapped in the #TyrannyOfConvenience as articulated by Tim Wu. A majority of the so called pro-privacy crowd are ppl that complain as they login to Facebook (and make excuses for using it) ... or they blindly accept deceiving & compromised privacy theatre tools so long as they don’t require a change of habit. E.g. brainwashed to think #DuckDuckGo is aligned with the privacy movement. No, #DDG is just exploiting fools.

The sad state of it is evident simply by stepping into a #threadiverse c/privacy community, where a majority of posts come from accounts hosted on nodes like #lemmyWorld & #shItjustWorks even if the community itself is on a defederated node.

It’s hard to imagine privacy movements making much progress when the orgs that claim to have a privacy mission will litter their site with FB and Twitter then reverse proxy it through CF.

@Jeze3D I am a big proponent of #foss and you are not wrong. #Google products a stable and reliable. Just look at products like #SkiffMail who was here today gone tomorrow.

The issue of course is #dataprivacy. I like using #protonmail and #duckduckgo, but I am still looking for an alternative to #googledocs #googlesheets and #googleslides.

It would be nice to have one ecosystem for all of this.

Wikipedia + AI = truth? DuckDuckGo hopes so with new answerbot - Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a cyborg duck. (credit: Ars Technica... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1922564 #largelangaugemodels #machinelearning #duckduckgo #antrhopic #websearch #wikipedia #biz⁢ #openai #ai