It would be way less of a problem for sure, but not moot. An individual inventor can still stop other people from using an identical solution simply for being first to file the paperwork.

Some things (field of medicine/environmentalism) can’t wait 15 years for an effective democratised solution.

The idea that someone would be rewarded for limiting access to such solution sickens me.

Naturally they would deserve global praise possible in the form of a reward for creating the idea that changed the world for the better, but capitalism is designed to not do so.

To often in industry the actual creative inventor gets nothing, while the company they work under gets the patent to exploits the demand.

Firmly an example of capitalism cannibalism themselves.

It may not abolish copyright but it is causing cracks.

Copyright was always a scam, non personal information should be free. Multiple people can have the same good idea, walling of access to a good idea behind capital blocks human progress.

Before anyone says something, yes artists deserve to eat… just like everyone else. Being economically productive should not be a condition for that. Make your art for fun and enjoy the honor of being copied with a sidedish of UBI.

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink.

I think the words of Gabriel Weinberg ( founder of ddg) as recorded on Wikipedia is a reliable source but you don’t have to believe him.

Microsoft does get your data. This is why i wrote that comment.

Read the wikipedia entry. Microsoft and ddg have a long standing openly known about deal.

Microsoft allows ddg to block bing trackers since 2022, ddg has always allowed them till then. but they must be getting something else to change that policy. No way microsoft is just giving api acces out of being good.

Its getting tired to repeat myself, which are verifiable facts.

They have a long standing corporate deal with microsoft.

The details are vague but this is not hidden, or kept secret.

Ddg has themselves said that the policy that required them to give exclusive acces to Microsoft trackers no longer applied and now blocks them since 2022. This is on the Wikipedia i shared.

But if you read between them lines. They are following Microsoft policies, if they are now allowed to block those trackers its because microslop allowed them to do so.

Tech companies only do such thing if they have incentives. A more covert way to get the same data, a long term plan to acquire and otherwise for PR.

Searxng also uses those same search querys but without corporate deal. Thats why if you refresh a lot you hit an api limit… any search engine that does not do that while using these trackers is somehow paying or bartering for access.

I did say there still better then the main page but i guess i should have put more emphasis on that.

I know many people irl who are are into computers and use ddg, blindly trusting that there search is fully private while there current search terms are directly used to serve them ads (somehow that does not count as personalized)

Its shades of grey, i am very happy they took agency to get rid of google but I really wish people, at least in the computer sector, where more aware of how far corporate reach goes.

Duckduckgo is backed by microsoft/bing which they have a contract with.

Startpage is the duckduck alternative that uses google, its unknown wether they have a contract.

These places are still better then google/bing themselves but people often wrongfully assume that they provide a privacy oriented service.

If you really want to go anticorporate you can host your own searxng, which still by default uses results from google and bing but can be configured to use any on your preference and its code open to verify that they do not give exclusive permission to certain paying corporations.

Using searxng it can happen that some google result could not be retrieved because of api limits… one has to wonder why Startpage does not have those limits.

I read this back in april,

The entire research were very nervous about doing this cause they essentially post misinformation. So they filled it to the brim with clear signs that its fake, tons of pop culture references and nonsensical wording.