DuckDuckGo recently donated $125,000 to open source projects

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Triqel
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Recently, DuckDuckGo, the Internet search company with a focus on privacy, donated $125,000 towards open source projects. Source: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2913632/opensource-subnet/duckduckgo-founder-gabriel-weinberg-talks-privacy-and-open-source.html

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It is good that duckduckgo donate that money to free software or "open source" as they like to call it. But there is an issue with duckduckgo and it is that their javascript does not seem to be, at least, fully free as in freedom and their non-js alternatives does not support all functionality like image searching. It's interesting to point out that Startpage and Ixquick can work without javascript perfectly.

I think that they should handle that issue first if they want to contribute.

In this post, one of the developers said that they are "opening" parts of ddg progressively but with this answer they are not telling us if they going to free their js:

https://duck.co/forum/thread/11534/making-duckduckgo-s-javascript-free

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Yes. Both of those versions of the site work without JS.

a_slacker_here
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yes, they work very well but they don't provide Image result nor Video result

SuperTramp83

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and the servers the two use are different too

pizzaiolo
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DuckDuckGo has servers on Amazon, which could be a problem: https://duck.co/help/company/architecture

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exactly

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I'd really love it if DDG freed their code, but it seems highly unlikely.