Because so many major search engines have joined the “manufacturing consent” game, it’s now necessary to develop and curate your *own* list of diverse sources. It’s long been acknowledged that in times of war, the first casualty is truth, but I’ve reached the conclusion that almost ALL “news” - war-related or not, Western, Russian, or not - is propaganda, and that the only way to form a *possibly* vaguely accurate impression of what’s going on in the world is to consume propaganda from *all sides*, and then try to figure out who’s *lying* about what, who’s conveniently *omitting any mention* of what, and who’s telling the *truth* about what (which does sometimes happen!). And by the way, while Noam Chomsky is a well-known “lefty” (by US standards), Ed Herman was the book’s primary author and he was a freaking professor of finance at the Wharton School of Business! From my perspective (and that of any number of top-notch independent/dissident journalists, commentators, and media analysts), the propaganda model of journalism it describes has never been borne out more starkly than in Western mainstream media’s coverage of the Ukraine conflict. Read Ed Herman’s and Noam Chomsky’s 1988 classic, “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” or, if you’re an AV-oriented kind of guy, check out the feature-film adaptation on YouTube. Translation: “I don’t want ‘news’ from ANYWHERE in my search results.” He notes that this policy is no longer in effect and that this has paved the way for the extension of the tracker blocking in the company's products.ĭuckDuckGo did not embed Microsoft scripts on its website or in the company's applications or don’t want propaganda in my search results.” Weinberg notes that the Microsoft tracking exemption in DuckDuckGo's products was "due to a policy requirement". Microsoft provides the company with access to data from its Bing search engine. Beta versions of the apps will get the protection in the coming months, according to Weinberg.ĭuckDuckGo has a partnership with Microsoft. The company's products will block scripts from Microsoft from loading on websites via the 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection feature.ĭuckDuckGo plans to roll out the improvement in the next week across company products. Weinberg announced today that DuckDuckGo's apps and extensions will block Microsoft scripts, just like the products are blocking Google, Facebook and other scripts that could be used for tracking purposes.
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