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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I used to use DDG until they started censoring results.

I use Brave Search and Startpage. The latter is basically just a private Google proxy with some cool features and the former is fully independent, private, aesthetically appealing and has nice optional AI features.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

DDG really does censor results hard. They even blocked my list of US atrocities from their search results.

[–] AusatKeyboardPremi 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Contributing here with another sample point.

I did not find the mentioned link on either search engines’ first page of results.

DuckDuckGo:

StartPage:

I am not sure why a black bar appears when taking a full page screenshot of StartPage on Safari for iOS, but both screenshots are unedited and uploaded as-is.

[–] AusatKeyboardPremi 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The screenshot for StartPage is blurred for some reason. Re-uploading again:

E: Re-uploaded a fresh copy after restarting Voyager.

[–] ridethisbike 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Your page isn't blocked. I found it on DDG just fine. Second page, as the other commenter pointed out.

What else are you claiming gets censored? Would love to put it to the test myself.

Edit: and startpage has it on page 3. Are you claiming they censored you out, as well?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Do you have a list of other countries atrocities?

Also the fact that one single website does or doesn't show up doesn't prove anything whatsoever. Of fucking course the search results varies and you can't seriously except a small website like that should be guaranteed top spot in every search engine. And it's not like there aren't a lot of other results showing us atrocities.

Btw, it does show up if you search for: "list of us atrocities dessalines", "list of atrocities commited by American authorities", "list of atrocities commited by Us authorities".

It even shows up on the second page if you search for "list of us atrocities" the same is true for Bing.