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Re: [tor-bugs] #13714 [Tor Browser]: Replace startpage.com with duckduckgo (startpage is hostile tor Tor users)
#13714: Replace startpage.com with duckduckgo (startpage is hostile tor Tor users)
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Reporter: duS3u_uus9usu | Owner: tbb-team
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Tor Browser | Version: Tor: 0.2.6.1-alpha
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by cypherpunks-duplicate):
Indeed, recently startpage has given more and more captchas. I wonder if
that is because of a raise in the number of users (or users who use
startpage at the same time in TBB), or if it is merely startpage fault.
Anyway, I noticed they used to simply give a page saying "we love tor
but..." while now we have a captcha. Which doesn't even work very well,
because after you put in the correct captcha you have to write your search
again (they just redirect you to the home page).
duckduckgo is a viable alternative, even more because they support a
hidden service which is better in some ways... You can be sure you are
taking to the correct destination and there is unlike that https hijack
will result in your searches being read by a malicious exit relay. All in
all, maybe that hidden service should be the default page?
On the other hand, I don't know if duckduckgo has a link for "non filtered
results". Startpage created one specially for TBB.
All in all, I don't know if there will ever be a "100% friendly tor search
engine", we should wonder if duckduckgo won't do the same after they start
to receive so much traffic from us (or if they won't start selling ads for
companies who want to target anonymous users into buying their stuff). But
we really need to talk to startpage and say that we are not gonna take
this crap from our default search engine. Maybe a change to duckduckgo
would actually be a good idea.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13714#comment:3>
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