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How do you like the idea?
I don't like it at all, if I got it right.
1. They make money with your data. That's bad
2. A certain part of this money does good things but
3. I don't like the idea of "doing something good" by just using a search engine. Using a search engine is nothing "good" or "bad".
Perhaps someone else does something good when I search .
The companies pay money to charity projects only because they get money with their advertises. Who pays this money they get? Well, the users, you and me.
So in the end, you and me make the donation in a very indirect way, selling our private data.
Why not going the direct way without any company getting money in the middle of the way?
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duckduckgo is for profit as well and they do get money from publicity but they do not track you.
but if i have to choose between goodsearch and google and bing i choose goodsearch. at least with goodsearch you can donate fsf. but it might be an oxymoron.
thanks for bring it up it is interesting.
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http://duckduckgo.tumblr.com/post/44000299625/duckduckgo-foss-donations-2012
ddg donates to free software projects.
DDG may contribute to free software projects, but their code is proprietary. They get away with it because the search is being run by a service on THEIR computers and yours. The code that runs on your computer their JavaScript which I am not sure is under a FLOSS license.
Looking at the source code for the home page, the "duckduckgo-duckduckgo+sprintf+gettext+locale-simple.20130508.082254.js" doesn't have a license defined but does include GPLv2 code which then makes the whole .js file GPL due to how the license works.
Their "d968.js" file doesn't include a license and I assume is not free software.
Well, it does not make a search engine worse when they don't share the code of the engine with you (Since the Engine is not running on your computer, you merely get the results). Did you look into their Code repo and checked if the Code file is there too?
On 19.05.2013, at 22:45, name at domain wrote:
> DDG may contribute to free software projects, but their code is proprietary. They get away with it because the search is being run by a service on THEIR computers and yours. The code that runs on your computer their JavaScript which I am not sure is under a FLOSS license.
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> Looking at the source code for the home page, the "duckduckgo-duckduckgo+sprintf+gettext+locale-simple.20130508.082254.js" doesn't have a license defined but does include GPLv2 code which then makes the whole .js file GPL due to how the license works.
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> Their "d968.js" file doesn't include a license and I assume is not free software.
That search engine has such a wide commercial support (yahoo, amazon etc.), and those interests must underlie it for sure.
Zizek explains how this works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzcfsq1_bt8
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