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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 8 Jan 2017

    Aral Balkan Retweeted David Graus

    Depends how you define inferior technology: I tend to define it as technology that doesn’t respect human rights and exploits people.https://twitter.com/dvdgrs/status/818021358764429312 …

    Aral Balkan added,

    David Graus @dvdgrs
    Great for people who prefer inferior technology. Or wait, no, I mean, for #privacy. https://twitter.com/aral/status/817723335970787330 …
    1:16 AM - 8 Jan 2017
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      2. David Graus‏ @dvdgrs 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @aral

        You see how you confound your ramblings on evil corporations (since this tweet) with technology in this tweet?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. David Graus‏ @dvdgrs 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @dvdgrs @aral

        I respect your opinion on evil corps btw (not that I agree), but the anti-tech attitude is misinformed.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. David Graus‏ @dvdgrs 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @dvdgrs @aral

        i.e., the solution is not to deny/ignore/oppose tech (as you seemed to suggest by moving back to "keyword search.")

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Anibal Damião‏ @damiansen 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @aral

        @dvdgrs interior? Big lol when targeted ads, native ads... are so desperately bad quality. Must be their "superior" tech..

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      2. Nick Lockwood‏ @nicklockwood 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @aral

        I agree with the sentiment, but @dvdgrs makes a valid point. The barrier to success of DuckDuckGo is that Google search tech is better

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      3. Nick Lockwood‏ @nicklockwood 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @nicklockwood @aral @dvdgrs

        I'm not saying accuracy of search results matters more than personal privacy, but we should aknowledge the distinction.

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      4. Nick Lockwood‏ @nicklockwood 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @nicklockwood @aral @dvdgrs

        there's an interesting question of whether Google search is better *because* of their data collection or for unrelated reasons

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      5. Nick Lockwood‏ @nicklockwood 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @nicklockwood @aral @dvdgrs

        i.e. does demanding privacy mean accepting a low ceiling on search quality, or can we have both (in theory)?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Stephen Darlington‏ @sdarlington 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @nicklockwood

        Maybe I’m just not a Google power user, but I didn’t notice a drop in quality when I switched to DuckDuckGo.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Stephen Darlington‏ @sdarlington 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @sdarlington @nicklockwood

        It’s probably true that search can be better with more data (a la google) but other solutions can be “good enough” for most?

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      1. Bryce-a-Roni the San Francisco Treat™‏ @brycechiodo 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @aral

        @dvdgrs can i get a fucking slow clap for this 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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