DuckDuckGo It is up to date these days due to the launch of its web browser for PC, starting with the version for macOS. A web browser that, in the style of what they already have for mobile devices and their own search engine and the company’s flagship product, excels in respect for the privacy of users. But it’s one thing to respect the privacy of your users, and it’s quite another to offer the features you expect when it comes to “sensitive” content.

They say this on TorrentFreak, although the truth is that the information is somewhat confusing because, unlike Google DuckDuckGo, for example, The Pirate Bay continues to appear in search results, as do other sites related to digital piracy, such as 1337x, RARBG or Fmovies. So what exactly is going on? That it’s not just the information on TorrentFreak that is confusing: they are all confusing.

The closest reality would be to say that DuckDuckGo is deindexing search results belonging to domains such as those listed, so content on these sites is not displayed.

For example, if you search on DuckDuckGo (or when it comes down to it, on any other search engine), something like “muycomputer firefox” will return a lot of results on our site; And if you want to speed up the search and clarify the results that do not come from our site, there are operators common to the major search engines that you can use, such as «site: muycomputer.com firefox».

You can do the same in DuckDuckGo and, it’s worth repeating, in any popular search engine: you type “thepiratebay batman” or “site: thepiratebay.org batman” to hurry up, and the same search engine has served you best. Result. That is, judging by what they publish, what DuckDuckGo limits. It wouldn’t be weird, and in fact, years ago, they deactivated their ‘bangs’ from search sites like the ones mentioned and more.

Why would they do that? The company is having trouble making a statement, but all indications are that they are using a prevention technique that is better than cure. They have come so far that censorship of internal results has resulted influenced tools like youtube-dla veteran open source project that makes it easy to download videos from YouTube.

However, this is not something DuckDuckGo does on its own. I’ve tried this with some of the most popular privacy search engines on the market and the same is happening in all of them, perhaps because All are based on results engines like Google or BingBecause all they do is anonymize them for their users. With a few exceptions, such as DuckDuckGo itself, which, although based on Bing’s results, adds its own results.

Same with DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Startpage… Even Brave Search, one of the last to join the party, and one of the few whose search results are generated exclusively by its own search engine. But not with those.

To top it all off, it should be noted that from Spain, where I am, many of these sites are blocked at the ISP level by a court order, meaning that almost any search engine will find them, but nothing was found when they were entered. limit it can be bypassed using VPN or TorBut it also doesn’t address the heart of the matter, and search engines continue to display censored results.