As an Indonesian resident and a long time DDG user this is immensely frustrating.
It seems to me that internet censorship is becoming more and more pervasive globally and whilst there can be legitimate reasons (eg: CSAM) blocking a search engine like DDG is a massive over-reach. Unfortunately, most Indonesians won't notice as they happily let Google, Meta et al track everything and everyone and are unlikely to be using DDG.
Curiously, this is both one of the best possible ads for DuckDuckGo, and one of the best possible ads for Indonesia's gambling ban (1.5% of GDP is bonkers.)
One could argue that if they had more access to pornography, maybe they wouldn't gamble so much...
DuckDuckGo should be banned globally for all I care.
Never allowed anyone to inspect their premisses, hardware/software and yet claim privacy. I understand many people here will not know any better and still a slightly better approach than using google or yandex, still a quite sus option for the casual informed user in Europe.
it uses combination of search results from other public services. if you self-host, your instance helps make these services single out the searcher (if not used by lots of unrelated people).
did not go through the code but if you use a public instance, it might be possible to do similar level of logging at instance-level what we accuse the search giants for. might be through some opt-out debugging feature or what have you.
at the end you place trust on a third party directly or not.
For that scenario you 1) download the code, 2) verify yourself what is inside and then 3) compile. (optional 4) Subsequent versions check on the delta of changes.
There is a cost to your time/effort in performing this type of action that is proportional to the criticality of your context and the level of trust you place on the providers.
To deploy it I think you mean on a vps. Now all your searches by Searx will be routed to other engines with the IP of your vps. So unless you deploy it with something like gluten to provide VPN access for searx. You will let those engines build profile about you. If you use the public instances so that more people are using it you don't know if they are running the unmodified source code.
Id you go with the route of VPN with sear then you probably use VPN with search engines like DDG directly. And don't save cookies on the browser.
You display enough technical pro-efficiency on the topic but then you try to compare as equivalent the usage of SearX or DDG, ignoring that only one of them has the source code available for review. If you are affiliated to DDG, please disclose openly.
If you honestly are _THAT_ worried about IP tracking on the server level, then you would run SearX inside your local machine with Tor or any VPN of your choice. Simple.
India pulls in 30% of any player's winnings as tax, for example. The gaming companies also have to pay 28% of their revenue (yes, revenue, not income).
Both. Most religions consider gambling immoral because it leads to social harm. You need to favor personal freedoms and personal responsibility more to justify taxing gambling rather than banning it. Or acknowledging that prohibition may cause more social harm than not. But only more secular governments get to allow harmful vices for the greater good.
“Only more secular governments get to allow harmful vices for the greater good.” I hadn’t really thought about it before, but yeah, that’s naturally the way it goes.
I think a wise secularist may see greater good in less gambling. Not every secularist is a libertarian in their tradeoffs of "what is good" for people. There is usually some reason vices are squashed that is not religious in nature; take the China society's approach to various vices for example.
Taxation won't even slow paperclip maximizers... 30% is same as Apple in-app fee. See how that negatively affected mobile lootbox genre and helped Apple escape from becoming slowly but increasingly dependent on that industry.
It also proxies images, which I think is the actual reason (sic). So there is no way from a network point of view to disallow pornographic material on public access terminals. Though, I have not recently looked at how the other search engines do it.
As a long time DDG user, the image filter isn't perfect and occasionally I'll see NSFW images even when I have safe search on.
It seems to me that internet censorship is becoming more and more pervasive globally and whilst there can be legitimate reasons (eg: CSAM) blocking a search engine like DDG is a massive over-reach. Unfortunately, most Indonesians won't notice as they happily let Google, Meta et al track everything and everyone and are unlikely to be using DDG.