<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>SimplifiedPrivacy.com Podcast wrote</title><author_name>SimplifiedPrivacy.com Podcast (npub14s…jt5d6)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub14slk4lshtylkrqg9z0dvng09gn58h88frvnax7uga3v0h25szj4qzjt5d6</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>Dear Tor Project,&#xA;&#xA;I&#39;m disputing the legitimacy of Duckduckgo being Tor browser&#39;s default search engine.&#xA;&#xA;This is how the URL should look:&#xA;podbean.com/podcast-detail/5bakh-79e4c/The-Breakdown-Podcast &#xA;&#xA;This is the spyware Duckduckgo does:&#xA;duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.podbean.com%2Fpodcast%2Ddetail%2F5bakh%2D79e4c%2FThe%2DBreakdown%2DPodcast&amp;rut=5c2461ff3cf9724900b2808b2011523bc08f4b82046e913bb14471790466518c&#xA;&#xA;Further, once you click the link, the websites themselves have Duckduckgo&#39;s 3rd party javascript inserted into the page load, such as &#34;improving.duckduckgo.com&#34; to report back to their AI your behavior on the site itself.  And then on top of that, Duckduckgo is just front-end for Bing, but it&#39;s hosted on Microsoft&#39;s servers.  So Microsoft hiding from Microsoft is a conflict of interest.&#xA;&#xA;How many times have we all accidentally mistyped a URL, where we meant to go to the site itself, but that then got searched on Duckduckgo&#39;s AI.  Sucks if it&#39;s an Onion address, at least let me turn search off?!&#xA;&#xA;Final kicker. In 2022, Duckduckgo&#39;s CEO Gabriel Weinberg said they are actively censoring &#34;Russian misinformation&#34;, that later turned out to be true, when 2 years later the CIA purposefully leaked to the New York Times that they had military bases in Ukraine PRIOR to Putin&#39;s invasion. Further the Times admits that Putin was correct for accusing the US of militarizing Ukraine BEFORE he invaded. [1]&#xA;&#xA;The official Tor Project website goes on and on about protecting whistleblowers.  So why is this the sole default choice for anonymous whistleblowers, if we&#39;re just repeating the CIA&#39;s narrative with AI spyware?</html></oembed>