[GPSCC-chat] Search Engines

[Drew]

The reason I recommend DuckDuckGo.com, IXQuick.com, Gibru.com, 
StartPage.com is that they don't track you.  Why is this important?

Well, we Greens are political activists who are working to overturn the 
status quo, and bring democracy and liberation to the U.S., yes?  Can 
you think of anything about that that is likely to get us targeted by 
the U.S. (In)security agencies -- that might get us arbitrarily labeled 
as "terrorists", "enemies of the state" and such?

We know for a certainty that the U.S. government uses a direct tap into 
Google, Yahoo/Bing/Microsoft, Facebook, as well as forcing them (and any 
U.S. company and they'll attempt it with foreign companies as well) to 
turn over any data like I.P. addresses they have in the name of U.S. 
(in)"security".  We know that.  So why would any informed Green in their 
right mind hand all their data to the NSA/FBI/CIA/(insert list of Three 
Letter Acronyms soup here)?  They wouldn't.

Well unfortunately these small, ostensibly good search engines do not 
have their own technology but instead are powered by one of the big, 
evil search engine companies and share their advertising revenue with 
them, so "under the hood" you will find Google, Bing or in the case of 
Ecosia.org, Yahoo/Bing/Micro$oft.  That means (without taking 
precautions) you WILL be fully tracked when you use these ostensibly 
"good" search engines.  Does that not make them no longer good?  I would 
say so.

For a longer discussion see http://donttrack.us/ or 
http://DoNotTrack.com or https://www.eff.org/issues/do-not-track, or 
http://gibru.com or 
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=non-tracking+search+engines


Greenvolution is NOW!

Drew

On 2016-02-19 08:42, Wes Rolley wrote:
> There has been some discussion here on search engines.  I remember
> that Drew recommended switching to Duck Duck Go.  Now, I read that
> Ecosia (ecosia.org ) will use a majority of its ad profits to plant
> trees.  Does anyone have experience with this search engine?
> 
> I note that there is an existing "add-on" that will make Ecosia the
> default search engine for Firefox.
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