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> The site recommends using DDG as a search engine. There was a time that this wasn’t a fringe idea.

Is that considered fringe now? Has it been appropriated by some radicalized group in the US?




Distrusting massive corporations is a far-right opinion now, apparently.


The brainwash the powerful social media companies have done to the masses in the last 10 years it is a thing of beauty. Criminal and immoral beauty.

Now supporting Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, behemoths which represent the excess of capitalism is considered hip, cool and progressive.


> Now supporting Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, behemoths which represent the excess of capitalism is considered hip, cool and progressive.

Isn't that great though? If it's now hip and cool, even the dumb/vain people will do the right thing (albeit for the wrong reasons) which should ultimately strengthen the alternatives to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.




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