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looking for a actual uncensored search engine

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Does any one know of any true uncensored search engines if you do not want to say here you can pm me,also what the heck is going up with duckduckgo they no longer have image video or any thing lile that any more its just text
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Very similar to viewtopic.php?t=2626111 and therefore closing.
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Methen wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 3:19 pm Does any one know of any true uncensored search engines if you do not want to say here you can pm me,also what the heck is going up with duckduckgo they no longer have image video or any thing lile that any more its just text
These may be of some use: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/13-altern ... ogle-cant/

I don't think you'd find something with zero "censorship" as some things are just obscene, if not illegal.
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[Dimetrodon] wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 3:49 pm
Methen wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 3:19 pm Does any one know of any true uncensored search engines if you do not want to say here you can pm me,also what the heck is going up with duckduckgo they no longer have image video or any thing lile that any more its just text
These may be of some use: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/13-altern ... ogle-cant/

I don't think you'd find something with zero "censorship" as some things are just obscene, if not illegal.
already checked some of thoseout nothing but crap.

You know places duckduck go advertise their self as non censoring and they flat out do censor it seems to me that if a company is doing that they should be able to be sued for false advertising for that is exactly what they are doing.
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Methen wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 3:59 pm already checked some of thoseout nothing but crap.
So you want the crap censored ?

Maybe you would get a better answer if you told us exactly what you don't want censored...
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Methen wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 3:59 pm You know places duckduck go advertise their self as non censoring and they flat out do censor it seems to me that if a company is doing that they should be able to be sued for false advertising for that is exactly what they are doing.
Your lawsuit would probably be without merit, not to mention that DuckDuckGo advertises privacy, not an extreme ideal of "non-censorship" that cannot exist anywhere.
https://www.vox.com/recode/22981115/duc ... ivacy-oops
Vox wrote:Many on the right adopted it as their pro-free-speech search engine of choice, a mission DuckDuckGo never actually had but had now, somehow, violated.
They never committed themselves to be a 4chan-teir search engine.

Is there cases of actual censorship? Yes, but you seem to think any rule is "censorship" regardless of practicality.
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[Dimetrodon] wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 4:31 pm
Methen wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 3:59 pm You know places duckduck go advertise their self as non censoring and they flat out do censor it seems to me that if a company is doing that they should be able to be sued for false advertising for that is exactly what they are doing.
Your lawsuit would probably be without merit, not to mention that DuckDuckGo advertises privacy, not an extreme ideal of "non-censorship" that cannot exist anywhere.
https://www.vox.com/recode/22981115/duc ... ivacy-oops
Vox wrote:Many on the right adopted it as their pro-free-speech search engine of choice, a mission DuckDuckGo never actually had but had now, somehow, violated.
They never committed themselves to be a 4chan-teir search engine.

Is there cases of actual censorship? Yes, but you seem to think any rule is "censorship" regardless of practicality.
No but they have for years advertised their self's as a search engine that does not censor and are totally dedicated to protecting your privacy .Do not know about the privacy thing but they sure as hell have have never lived up to their reputation of being censor free that is for certain.
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As stated, that's not their mission. Their mission is privacy, ie., not being a search engine that takes your personal information and sells it.
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Well once again people turned a post into something that is was not all I wanted to know is if any know a search engine that does not censored that was all I wanted to know.
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Methen wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 5:07 pm Well once again people turned a post into something that is was not all I wanted to know is if any know a search engine that does not censored that was all I wanted to know.
Again, what do you not want to be censored? Since you use the term very loosly, I doubt there's a single site on the entire internet that meets your criteria.
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Brf wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 4:28 pm
Methen wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 3:59 pm already checked some of thoseout nothing but crap.
So you want the crap censored ?

Maybe you would get a better answer if you told us exactly what you don't want censored...
No I want the crap to be uncensored so every one can get a good smell :P
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https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/13-altern ... ogle-cant/

Of course any search engine is only as good/bad as its database and algorithms and has its own priorities when displaying any results.

... or of course you could always write your own
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Large sites need to pay their bills, that means advertizers, which means that they can't host things most people would find obscene. So all search engines will have a minimum standard of what they will not show.

Not to mention that they have to comply with many countries' laws.

Some censor more than others, and some for completely unjustified reasons (like political bias), but they all "censor," and there are justified reasons for doing so.
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Have you searched “is there a none censored search engine”?

Have you seen The Onion Browser/The Onion Routing project?
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Yeah, he can use Tor Browser and try to access .onion sites. Some search engines there may be as close to uncensored as possible, though try to stay away from the scams and illegal content that lurks there.
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