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Thinking of deleting your Facebook account? Feeling queasy about companies harvesting your browsing history? Well friend, you might be interested in Duck Duck Go, an alternative search engine to Bing (and by Bing I mean Google).
Based in Paoli, PA, Duck Duck Go proudly claims to emphasize privacy over ad revenue. They rely on crowdsourcing—information garnered from the evolving mass of internet users—to generate search results.
It’s a bold concept for sure, but not outside the wheelhouse of most basic internet users. I highly recommend trying it out, if only to recall what it was like when the internet wasn’t quite so corporate. Duck Duck Go is a nice place start.
For here is an exciting–and daunting–fact: the “Decentralized Internet” or more precisely, the “Re-decentralized Internet” is coming. Organizations like Indie Web, Maidsafe, Blockstack, Bitclave, are just a few companies looking to address the clamor for privacy.
But the first wave of tech-migration always requires a certain level of confidence in the underlying tech itself. Getting too comfortable with one platform over another breeds a kind of tech-laziness. The fact is we might need to get our learn on if we hope to save this government.
But packing up the tent and moving is hard! And all my friends are here!
True enough. But as Al Swearengen says, “Change ain’t looking for friends. Change calls the tune we dance to.”
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