You are using DuckDuckGo Wrong!
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2021
- Do you think that DuckDuckGo is protecting your online privacy?
If you are using it the wrong way, then it definitely does not.
So today, I am going to show the wrong way to use DukDuckGo and the right way to use DDG to protect yourself online.
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What is the point when you are logged into the browser lol?
Consider the following: Protonmail.
What if I using it from the TOR browser and don't use other search engines?
@@salthin Protonmail sends data to swiss authorities so... not sure what your point is?
@@salthin it's blocked in some countries (e.g. Russia, i live in russia and the site is blocked)
The problem is that you have added google tracking script to your webpages, so regardless of how someone lands on your page, google scripts still run, because you've invited google to track visitors to your page. This has nothing to do with the search engines. The fact that you're showing us the results from google analytics proves my point.
Your video title is misleading. What you've demonstrated is how to correctly block trackers and I'm sure several tools will do that via some extension or non-Chrome browser. This is not about DuckDuckGo per se. You have trackers on your site and folks need to understand that they need tracker blocker of some kind to stop it.
No script for the win
recommendations?
@@dr.pastrami5272 I have no recommendations, friend as I'm not a security expert. I just thought the video was a bit misleading. That's all.
@@garfieldhudson Will Tor block the trackers?
Thanks! Seems like a valuable heads up
When I compare search results with DDG to Google, it's sometimes interesting to see that DDG offers results which Google filters out. Especially when politics are concerned.
Even when searching for torrents.
*And that's the main reason to NOT use Google. They censor information.*
Same
Interesting Rob I will have to keep an eye out for that. In general since 2000 I just think youcan't believe any thing about politics on line unless you have checked several sources some of which should be New services that are peer reviewed since the Rise of Agent Orange
This is sooo true. It's very difficult to do your own research on Google from 2 opposite points of view, because they give you biased results.
Yes, of course a search engine doesn't make an unsafe browser any safer.
It does though, the mobile app and extension do at least.
Neither does using an extension it's called fingerprinting.
The duckduckgo mobile browser appears to be built off of Chromium. I have a shallow understanding of Chromium, but seems to me that Google wouldn't build something like chromium without building in a way to collect user data... just being paranoid?
@@chrisknoblock chromium is not Google sole property
@@thiruvenkadamgs open source, but primarily developed and maintained by Google.
It is not that I can use another search engine, it is that google is so biased that I don't like them anymore.
I have been using DDG for about 6 months now and I love it. No more Google and their stupid doodles.
Maybe I understood wrong, but you are mixing two different things. Privacy of DDG search engine and privacy of the other website. DDG search engine will not track you and it doesn't save your information. When you click on a result, your browser is redirected to an external website. What happens on the external website has nothing to do with DDG search engine. In your example, the website use google analytic. If you wanna prevent this , it is needed a plugin or a different browser (ie brave) or some trick on your computer. I would say that the first part of the video is totally wrong - DDG search engine is safe for your online privacy
DuckDuckGo has launched its own browser, as well as changing an awful lot when it comes to the relevance of search results. It looks like they have made a lot of changes since you made this video - it would be nice to see an updated review.
it's not available for linux though
Thanks for affirming why I continue to NOT use Google for anything.
Except maybe the Google owned CZcams?
@@BrooksHagenow When the author is not the messenger, it’s not the same despite the platform owner.
@@heart4Pahoa By that logic, Google is just linking you to the various websites you browse. Like CZcams Google are not the author of those websites but they are the authority on their platform (think your favourite CZcamsrs being demonetised and cancelled).
@@contenteater I hear what you are saying. I just don’t see (and I did think about it) an equal relation between Google created content\application(s) and the continued allowance or removal of a CZcams broadcaster. The broadcaster will most likely change platforms if demonetized and the content still gets disseminated. Because many of these broadcasters share information and thought provoking content. It’s a monumental task to regulate and control for Google’s purposes. At least right now. That will change someday and when it does, I will stop using CZcams.
As an analogy, If I buy a TV; I do not have to use it for monthly cable program access. I can choose what I want to watch. I can still us it for streaming media, a DVD\BlueRay movie or any other number of media display devices.
And yet OP, you're here on CZcams. A Google service.
I have noticed that when I make the same search on DDG and Google, that the Google results appear filtered with a particular political bias. Google suppresses dissenting voices.
yip - what I said. Filtered results.
what i hate the most of google is that search results prioritize adds ober what you are actually looking for. Making the reults actually worse than ddg in my opinion.
When I searched for Trump's remarks on Charlottesville Google only gave me editorials on why what he said is horribly racist and supports ws/neo-national socialist violence.
DDG gave me pro-Trump and anti-Trump editorials as well an article that included the actual video recording of his remarks so that I can hear the truth for myself.
@@Lestibournes WHOA NELLIE !! You are not allowed to think for yourself. Step back in line.
well I'm a wacky go lucky progressive and be serious google skews first to its revenue then conservative it wasn't always so but the richer you get the more likely its so. Billionaires hang with billionaires. I admit i do the same i just lean left and that slants my conclusions cheers
One crazy moment was after adding the DDG extension and going to a website.
In the ad windows it was white with the DDG logo under with a text basically saying "This ad on this site is used by facebook to track you so we've blocked it".
So even when people don't have a facebook account or use facebook, they still track people on other sites. Geez. Glad DDG warned me.
Oooo yes. Check out Facebook "shadow profiles."
Even if you've never made an account, it attempts to figure you out through people who have, and aggregates a ton of information on you anyway.
It's insane.
@@ArcangelZero7 another reason Facebook should be purged from the net
I use DuckDuckGo exclusively. I've used it all day every day for two years and it returns 90% of the time with exactly what I'm looking for in the first five results. I know what you mean in feeling like you lost something leaving google, I did too.... I lost the ads...
Not just ads. I lost my censor. That's a lot.
DDG does not appear to suppress or alter search results. More than enough reason to use it
I never thought it was protecting my privacy, I just thought it wasn't tracking me.
This is not about using search engine wrong, this is about installing an extension that is blocking trackers outside of the search engine's page.
Hmmm imagine if someone made a video about that 🤔 oh wait 🤣
Kinda missed my point but ok
Google will never be good enough for me to ever use again.
But you're on CZcams, though?
@@lulu_9000 because yt has a monopoly i think
@@lulu_9000 Alternative platforms don't have anywhere near enough content to be a viable option
I’ll be honest I have no issues with DDG
@@Orcinus1967 I’m speaking of myself I can’t speak for everyone
True that 👍🏾
Sometimes this guy makes some simple things seem too complicated and advanced😅
Why should you have any issues?
If you’re fine with companies tracking you, then ok.
How about now?
"Do you also like DDG's song 'Moon Walking In Calabasas'? LoL.".
My combination:
Brave ± DDG is perfect
What is brave? I’m new
@@fyuecd2 brave browser
I've used duck for a long time had no idea it wasn't helping. Every video from you I've watched and benefit from. Thank you so much
appreciate you being here!
I have been using the Duck for years and I love it.
Same experience here. I tried DDG for a while but returned to Google. However, that brief try was enough to understand that Google filters out some results, based on their policies. So, I use DDG for searches I know Google will fail.
Dayum never knew this...Thanks as always Liron!
That was the best couple of minutes I've spent in a long time. Thanks Liron.
Damn! Where have you been until today!? I needed to know this at least 10 years ago! Thanks Liron!!!
Thanks... had the settings "right" on my DDG setup. Your vid helped me double-check how I had it set up. Good to get verification from the maestro. 👍
Great video, what are your thoughts on the Brave browser
6:23 those analytics will still appear in your server logs. Even with the DuckDuckGo extension websites can still log your IP which allows them to see the date time country state and page of the visit.
Nicely done!
Looks like you may be local as well. I need to get out more again and start going to some tech meetups around the DFW.
Doesn't uBlock Origin do the same to block trackers?
That's what I was thinking. If you're concerned about privacy, then you probably already have uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger installed.
Been using that of a couple years now. One word.... AMAZING!! Could not be without it.
I tended to use a combo of the two. Although, it is bad that on Goggle I have experience typing in one company and Google giving me their competitor as the first link. Now, I tend to have better results sometimes with DDG image searches.
Now I'm worried, can you tell us next video about using Duck Duck Go through TOR? Thanks for the video mate. it was good
You should do a video on brave's new search engine
It really is the best! I use the browser and search engine on Android, iOS, Linux and Windows. 🙂
Hey It’s David!!!! How Is Nicaragua treating you these days? Any better??? Haha
Exactly why are you using Google chrome?
from what i've heard it's pretty horrible
I used it and it felt like a stripped down version of DuckDuckgo.
don't just make DDG the preferred searcher, delete the others. all of them
ok but what searcher has the privacy?🤔i am thinking and asking ppl about 3 years and nobody knows🤷♀️ do you know?
I had the exact opposite experience. When I started using DuckDuckGo, I started getting much higher quality search results. When I used Google search it seemed to give me the same narrow set of options every single search. I had to break out of the bubble to get information. Every now and then I will use Google search to see if it offers different results if I seem to be hitting a wall on information on DDG.
Thank you. I didn't have my settings right, in DDG. You helped me a lot.
Also because the video was so great I had to like it and subscribe! I am part of the Huge mass of people leaving Google! Thanks again.
If you're using anything Google you're doing it wrong.
ironic that you're commenting this on youtube, a service owned by google 💀
On Apple products, like iPad or iPhone if Duck Duck Go is selected as the search engine under Safari, does it act like the extension and encrypt your searches and block the trackers? Or does that fall under the “wrong” way to use DDG? I do appreciate the warnings you provide in these videos. Thank you Liron!
Apple-bots and Apple fan bois are a hackers dream. Your Apple products are a gateway to being tracked EVERYWHERE.
i need an answer for this as well
I have no problem finding anything I'm looking for with Duckduckgo. I added the extension just now, thank you.
Thanks so much, always helpful I do. Might you be doing a video on Brave browser?
Very good information. I have used Duck Duck Go in the past but didn't know about the extension.
I have noticed that Duck Duck Go doesn't give me answers to my queries as well as Google does.
What do you mean as well? The biggest difference I've noticed in 2+ years of using DDGo is that I have to do the information filtering myself - which I see as an advantage.
I noticed that the Ecosia extension gives me less than optimal results sometimes too. It appears these search engine extensions to Google are inferior in varying ways. I first started using Firefox because Chrome was saving every little search I typed in to a hellish degree. Then I found Ecosia and now I'm just using Firefox to recognize what I'm searching for, what a F@cking twist on my habits. All for the trees.
I’m glad this extension exists. It brings all of the features from the mobile app to even chrome!
Ngl I thought this was obvious, but it seems a lot of people were surprised, so good on you for getting this out
The only thing to learn here is that the sooner you care about your privacy the better you’d understand what tools do and what they don’t. 🛠
In theory (although I don't know if done in practice since I haven't done webdev in a decade), not even this might be enough actually. Nothing is stopping the server from sending your browsing habits to Google or similar for analytics data. This is something the client wouldn't be able to block. Only something like a VPN or Tor would be able to mitigate privacy leaks in that case.
Don't forget DNS leaks either, that can reveal everything. The VPN provider also has to be reputable if you really wanna use it.
You're in Dallas too? I thought you looked familiar... ;0 thanks fore the excellent video! let me know if you want to grab lunch sometime (if you really are in the DFW area)
At 5:14, you advise using the Google Chrome extension, or the extension for whatever browser is used. That part could benefit from further detail.
For example, my browser is Firefox, and at one time, at least, Firefox shared the same engine with Chrome. So, I may not need to add the Chrome extension.
Aw... thank you so much, never knew this...💥🙏
In research I've been doing, I have found MORE material on the subjects I want!!! I did not know about this fix you have so that does not play into it. Google has blocked MANY political data files that I knew existed from having them sent to me via other people - but I wanted to double check them myself...I COULD NOT FIND THEM WITH GOOGLE BUT THEY POPPED RIGHT UP WITH DUCK DUCK GO. I have been afraid of Chrome since its inception so I avoid that but I will try your method with Firefox to see if that works... I see this video is dated June 26, 2021 and many things have changed in that short period of time with censorship and people being tossed off the web. BTW I'm glad I stumbled upon your site, I have learned numerous handy things and you do a fine job of getting the info across to those of us who have a little knowledge but are not techies!!!! Many thanks for ALL that....
what about Startpage? Don't they use google results but no tracking? Very interesting video you got here. Much appreciated.
I like startpage and I utilize it when DDG is running slow as it often does.
The search engine and web site are their own entities and can log/track independently of each other’s. What I’m seeing is what the site tracks, not what DDG logs/tracks. DDG is not a VPN and I don’t expect them to keep my info safe on sites they do not own, even if I found the site searching with DDG.
Literally their tag line 🤦♂️
Gee I wonder why there is confusion?
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Thank you. Subscribed. I do use DDG. It usually serves my needs, but I will switch the Google if I'm not happy with the results.
same!
I don't even use search engines anymore. I just type random stuff into the address bar until I find a site that's reachable.
I know nothing about you, first time seeing you on CZcams but I know a South African accent when I hear it, hello from KZN.
Thanks for that - we should have been told this before.
Thanks for this video Liron, I had this setup properly but when I checked again, discovered that the addon was disabled!! grrr :(
Immediately installed DDG. What I find hilarious, that after the entire vid Liron just basically says ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ trackers schmackers. Helloooooo Google!
Went ahead and fixed it. I had no idea. Had the extension on my last computer, but never thought to do it on my new one.
Do you have a video on how to improve ping/ latency?
I use both, depending on what's to be searched. Google Maps is very convenient and the data I leave behind is of nobody's use. For best bargains on a rental vehicle, for example, Duck isn't polarized towards showing the results of their best-paying advertisers first. Therefore, I get best bargain results objectively
Best way to search...no single engine is ideal for all purposes.
I can honestly say I've NEVER clicked a website ad or bought a product because I saw it on a website ad or CZcams ad.
I agree that Google does give a greater number of selection of content.. When using google I spend more time looking at search results & stay away from the the top search list
This is great! thank you. I really had no idea that the extension was this useful. I was using it wrong xD.
It also gives CZcams a D grade for privacy. Thanks Google... lol
So it’s just blocking tracker cookie which is also built in into brave. More importantly is prevention of browser fingerprinting as tracking via cookies is going away. And here again brave is the way to go
Better than Firefox?
Yea blocks cookies so you wont be cross site tracked,but what about scripts on the web page?google anlytics,google tags,google is still there spying on what ur doing
I just took brave off of mine because Mr. Braxton says that brave does not help you!
Liron , Tony rom New Zealand calling, I like you style bro, liked and subbed - cheers
I have been using DDG on my phone and as an extension in Firefox for a year. I stopped receiving spam calls trying to sell me stuff straight away, and have no problems with the search results.
Thanks ! I learned something :)
Glad to hear it!
Basically, add DDG browser extension.
Very clear and clever way to tell us about your web page.
I'd like to know how effective advertising on the internet is...
I've never bought anything that's appeared in an internet ad, and can honestly say I never read or listen to any advert...even on CZcams. I actually find adverts an annoyance and if I became aware of an advert it'd probably put me against the product.
Yeah, I know that advertising is what's funding a lot of the internet...but I for one am not buying the products...
You should do this on a non-google owned browser.
DDG isn't actually a search engine itself though, it's a front-end that queries bing anonymously for you.
It's a meta engine it still searches bing and yahoo and google and I think yandex
Here's my trick:
Have the most scrambled of random impulses to search for stuff and change interests so quickly... that ads are always two days behind what you now want.
Great info (and clever vector of self promotion searching your own website content, ha, ha.) Subscribed!
well that was the only way I could show the analytics - but a bit of shameless promotion doesn't hurt 😉
I am going to tell you something. Before SEO's back in the day, Google was the worst of the search engines. Its only advantage was that it advertised everywhere. Today, I will primarily use Duck Duck go, especially if I am looking for something off the wall, something where the people didn't pay to be featured first. If I know something I need to find can be found easier using Google and their billions of gigabytes of info they have on everyone, I will go there, but they are rarely my first choice.
Installed it as u said and it works great thank u :) BTW, why is the Internet on my new'ish laptop slower than my phone?, especially the ping speed on the lappy it's nearly a 100ms more. Same WiFi 6 router, speed test to the same server NFOrce. Thank u :)
Thanks Liron, can windows sandbox help in anyway ? It wont retain cookies to see where i've been, Your site will know I am visiting though but I shouldn't get any adverts from using sandbox on my main system browser.
It also looks like you are using the "Brave Browser." I'm Surprised you didnt mention this. IMO- Brave Browser, Duck Duck Go, and Using a VPN with Proxy services and a multi-hop function has served me well over the past 5-6 years.
Brilliant video as per usual!
Thanks again!
Excellent, thank you.
Safari guy here. Love being out of the Googleverse when I can just because they have their fingers in so many pots. I just added DDG extension to Safari thanks.
So, I was using it right all along. I added that extension the moment I heard DDG was a thing.
I'm the same way, I really love the ideal of Duck Duck Go, and do have it installed and only used it as a search engine until watching this. I have since added it as an extension, thanks for that.
However, I really enjoy Google despite the tracking and monopoly it seems:) I feel so hypocritical too because of that:) Man, I've had the same Gmail account for probably approaching 20-years. My email is actually my name:) LOL! I feel like I'm in too deep to stop Googling now:) Love all the great content you offer...
Nice video - thanks! But you shouldn't use either Chrome nor G Analytics... Google keeps tracking you...
Hey. I love your channel. Very informative. My question is when I'm using protonmail which is supposed to be private and it's from some European country and I live in the USA, but a lot of sites won't allow me to use my protonmail email address. Why? Why? Why?
Wow...excellent video.....thanks for guiding us to more security. Last year, it took weeks to adapt to losing Google's more robust results but we adjusted to DDG. Now we will use the DDG extension and adapt even more to whatever might be needed.
You're welcome!
What about for mobile can you do the same reveal and comparison for mobile?
Yes, it appears the DDG extension the chrome on mobile device. Is that correct?
But that's just because the extension acts as a tracker blocker and so does every tracker blocker out there, like uBlock, Adblock, Ghostery, and so on. And Google can only know what people are doing on your page if you add their tracking code there, what nobody has to do. If you want to know what pages users are opening, you can track that directly on the webserver yourself and guess what, blocking trackers cannot prevent that from happening as they cannot block the page you are currently on, otherwise it would come up empty. They only block calls to external services and only if these are known tracking services.
DDG queries drive me up the freakin' wall, sometimes. Double-quotes around a term make that mandatory in the results - except when they don't. And they don't bother telling you that at the time, either - you get to find out by reading the page for Russian stoat husbandry that has inexplicably turned up instead and figure out for yourself that nowhere in the article are either of your keywords mentioned, let alone together and in the order you specified.
Let me get this straight, in order to get maximum privacy I need to get an extension app from google. I got 🦆🦆go because of how google operates. I’m more confused now
Never have been a fan of chrome as prefer Firefox
I have 1 question what are you try to explain? you should use tor or something like that hides location 🤔
You have some great info for us... thanks!
Thanks for the message and hanging out here 👍
If you have a custom tracker, duckduckgo can't block it
Lito, how to use DUck duck go For apple products without chrome OS ? I changed the search engine for Safari into Duck duct go , but not able to find duct duct go extension. . Can you do a video podcast or for Safari without chrome OS , please. Thanks much . Your videos is important to us, educational.
Add FireFox browser to your Apple product, then use DuckDuckGo in it.
Round about way to bombard us with your ad. Nice going
eh....what❔❓❔
What about Firefox with the stric anti-tracker options? You would still be able to view the location?
Thank You would had never known otherwise.
Do not mind the search results at all. Privacy and non biased results mean so much more than a better collection of results. All the info is still out there, just need to click a few more links.. remember when you had to go to a library to find out anything lol 21st century problems