HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Requires a log-in. That means that there’s absolutely no way to anonymize your searches. That makes it a hard pass. At least if I want to do an anonymous search, I can open my laptop, boot up in Tails, and search DDG on Tor. With a required log-in (and billing that presumably doesn’t include a Monero option), you can’t make that work.
Pass.
Atemu@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Whether this is bad depends on your threat model. Additionally, you must also consider that other search engines are able to easily identify you explicitly identifying yourself. If you can’t fool abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/, you certainly can’t fool Google for instance. And that’s even ignoring the immense identifying potential of user behaviour.
Billing supports OpenNode AFAICT which I guess you could funnel your Moneros through but meh.
HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 months ago
When I open Tor browser on my desktop–not in Tails–that site doesn’t even load. So either it is fooling it, or it requires javascript to run, which I have turned off by default in Tor.
I’m going to leave it at that.