As of now, the privacy search engine DuckDuck Go removes pirate sites for avoiding different liability issues. Here, they have cleaned their databases and have also removed shortcuts to pirate sites.
Hence, as you know, all the things are only taking place to eliminate liability trouble which can lead themselves to a huge loss. Moving ahead, let’s know a bit of the DuckDuckGo pirate site story and draw our conclusions on the same.
DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites & Liability Avoidance Story
First of all, the DuckDuckGo has launched a decade ago and since then, it’s a tool used by users who value piracy.
Unlike other competitors, this site doesn’t keep IP records of the users and doesn’t store any sensitive information.
Further, the search engine even has other useful features like instant answers & bangs which surely benefits the users.
For people who want to directly search on other websites, DuckDuckGo is a perfection option to go for.
However, a few days ago, around 2,000 pirate sites were removed from DuckDuckGo search engine.
More interestingly, this included backlinks to some most popular sites such as The Pirate Bay, 1377x and the all-famous RARBG. Even the sites such as Sci-Hub and OpenSubtitles became inaccessible.
Initially, everything happened at a faster pace which nobody known. But, as and when the matter got clarity, things have started to unfold.
The DuckDuckGo Staff explained to people that this was a part of their clean up which the company is doing.
Here, the company went through its bangs library and deleted all the non-working websites which were not active. In addition, plenty of the pirated sites became inaccessible with immediate effect.
A word of mouth by Tagawa
“Bangs had been neglected for some time, and there were tons of broken ones. As part of the bang clean-up, we also removed some that were pointing to primarily illegal content. We operate globally, as do bangs, and products that actively facilitate interaction with illegal content can have us and our employees face significant legal liability, and jeopardizing the entire service.” Said Tagawa who is one of the staffers of DuckDuckGo.
The search engine is still indexing these sites but has stopped to give shortcuts. Apparently, this wasn’t a type of issue as and when the bang came into existence. Due to a change in perspective on the third-party intermediaries, DuckDuckGo is facing sorts of liability issues.
Hence, not every user is happy with this decision and they are pointing on the removed sites. Such sites can become useful to access legal contents such as different Linux versions.
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Final Word of Mouth: DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites & Liability Avoidance Story
Still, after DuckDuckGo removes pirate sites, they are advising people to use other tools for accessing those sites. For example, even FireFox allows users for creating their own shortcuts which work the same as bangs.
Hence, in the midst of the fight between people and DuckDuckGo, the company will have to come with a more accurate solution, to make people understand, for sure.
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