Hacker News: yegg

New comment by yegg in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

yegg — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:00:46 +0000

This hasn't been our experience; can you please reach out to me with specific examples? My email is in my profile.

New comment by yegg in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"

yegg — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:54:59 +0000

Thank you

New comment by yegg in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"

yegg — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:53:59 +0000

Yes, we have image search. If you do a search, just click on images. We also recently added the ability to filter out a large portion of AI-generated images.

New comment by yegg in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"

yegg — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:52:39 +0000

We're still supportive, donating to the Perl foundation the last two years: https://duckduckgo.com/donations

New comment by yegg in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"

yegg — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:51:05 +0000

Back of the envelope for you: Google does about $200B in search revenue, about half in the U.S. (so $100B). We have about 3% markt share in the U.S., which would equate to about $3B in Google monetization. Now, we make way way less than Google per search, in large part due to our privacy policy, but 10x less is still on the order of 300M per year. So, you can see how we can easily take in more than 36M per year.

Also, NAD is a very serious review process as NAD refers any unsubstantiated claims directly to the FTC. Lots of evidence, vetted by a third-party.

New comment by yegg in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"

yegg — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 02:04:37 +0000

We offer Email Protection: https://duckduckgo.com/email

It isn't full email, but removes trackers in your email before it gets sent to you, which is the most privacy-invasive part of email. More info at https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/email-protectio... and

New comment by yegg in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"

yegg — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 02:03:14 +0000

Ads are optoinal and private; you can turn ads off in the settings if you want. Per our privacy policy: "Viewing ads on DuckDuckGo Search is anonymous, like the rest of our search results (as described above)." More info at https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ads-by-....

New comment by yegg in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"

yegg — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:13:23 +0000

We monitor closely and if something is off then we correct it. If you have particular examples in mind right now, please share them with me so I can look into them.

New comment by yegg in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"

yegg — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:07:20 +0000

It's neither, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259466 I just made.

If you see results missing, I'd be happy to look into them. My email is in my profile.

New comment by yegg in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"

yegg — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:03:00 +0000

Human traffic really shouldn't be seeing that -- if you want to email me I can try to sort it out to improve our systems.

New comment by yegg in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"

yegg — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:02:24 +0000

We do, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259412 -- that said, I take the point and will circle up with the team.

New comment by yegg in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"

yegg — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:01:41 +0000

I did not submit to this to Hacker News. I wrote it for my audience on my newsletter.

New comment by yegg in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"

yegg — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:26 +0000

We = DuckDuckGo. As the article notes, we are increasingly relying on our own search technology. For example, our Search Assist (our version of AI overviews), local results (maps, business listings, etc.), knowledge graph stuff (wikipedia, answers, etc.) don't come from Bing. That said, if Bing happens to removes something, we can add it back, which we do. We do not censor anything ouselves.

New comment by yegg in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"

yegg — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:56:51 +0000

We actually have, as part of https://natlawreview.com/article/nad-examines-privacy-statem... "The NAD found the claims supported by the evidence which included a third-party expert confirming that the company’s measures (encryption, tracker blocking, and private searches) protect against the three largest categories of personal data collectors."

In terms of money, as the article notes we have 3% of U.S. search market share. That's a lot if you consider how much Google makes. Now, in part because of our search privacy, we make way way less, but it is still enough to be profitable. That said, that means we could be way way more profitable if we tracked people, which we don't.

New comment by yegg in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"

yegg — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:53:12 +0000

A primary problem is we get overwhelingly spammed with submissions. They are not completely ignored. We have maintainers, but as a relatively small team given the surface area of what we're working on, they have been de-prioritized. That said, I think some better tooling could probably get be put in place at this point to help us.

New comment by yegg in "Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta"

yegg — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:09:49 +0000

Aggregate anonymous statistics, for example, requery rates/times, bounce back rates/times, etc.

New comment by yegg in "Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta"

yegg — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:31:34 +0000

We never blocked this image and we would have no incentive to either since we’ve been banned in China since 2014. Here’s my statement from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27528324

New comment by yegg in "Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta"

yegg — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:29:15 +0000

All our different search metrics have been up over time, so would love to know more about specifics if you'd care to reach out to me (email in profile) and we can look into it more deeply.

New comment by yegg in "Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results"

yegg — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:58:56 +0000

We have actually started doing a lot more crawling and indexing in the last 24 months.

New comment by yegg in "DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025"

yegg — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:49:46 +0000

FYI if you're curious, our full list of 2025 donations are here, $1.1M to 29 orgs: https://spreadprivacy.com/2025-duckduckgo-charitable-donatio.... Historical donations (going back to 2011) are here: https://duckduckgo.com/donations