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by abk 4658 days ago
IANAL, but I'd be surprised if the police was allowed to raid me, launch tear gas through my window and shoot me in the head. Even with a warrant. I'm not worried about this happening, because it doesn't. If it did, I'm sure it would blow up into a huge scandal.

I am worried about government agencies intercepting my traffic / communications because it does happen, it's really hard to find out unless you know what you're looking for, and they don't have a warrant on every American citizen that happens to get caught.
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a3n 4657 days ago
> Even with a warrant. I'm not worried about this happening, because it doesn't.

Spend a little time in here: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=warrant+no+knock+raid+mistake&t=ca...

Or here: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=warrant++raid+mistake+death&t=cano...

Or here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/08/swat-t...

I'm still waiting for the scandal.

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sigkill 4657 days ago
Is there a difference between ddg and startpage.com principles? Because I find startpage to be more in-line with the results I want to see.
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a3n 4657 days ago
startpage serves you google results, anonymized. It's sort of like scroogle was, I suppose.

ddg, I think, does their own spidering and also serves bing and other results (but not google), but that's from dusty memory and it could be wrong or changed. ddg will however forward your request to google if you want, and you'll get a results page from google itself. In fact I use ddg as a front end for google when I want to use google.

startpage is Dutch/American, ddg is American.

https://startpage.com/eng/company-background.html

https://duckduckgo.com/about http://dontbubble.us/

ddg's Gabriel Weinberg posts here on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=epi0Bauqu

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serf 4657 days ago
> If it did, I'm sure it would blow up into a huge scandal.

how are you sure of that? Do you honestly think the public is privy to the movements of the people in charge?

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