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A #Warning for Anyone Using #DuckDuckGo's #Email #Privacy
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#PleaseBoost!)

On Tuesday I upgraded my self-hosted
#Mailcow server.

On Tuesday most of my
@duck.com email addresses stopped working.

I've just been told that if
@duck.com tried to forward one email to you, and it can't deliver it, then it will stop forwarding every other email address you have in your account!

One failure.

So I'm guessing that while all the various docker containers for my hosted Mailcow install were being upgraded and restarted one fucking email came-in to my domain from
@duck.com and it was bounced for whatever reason.

And now I'm sitting here looking at 100+ unique email addresses, most of which are used as authentication credentials for logging-in to websites and services, that I now need to figure out how to change.

Do. Not. Use. DuckDuckGo. Email. Privacy.

Je découvre que DuckDuckGo a un domaine noai.duckduckgo.com/ qui permet de faire des recherches sans les outils IA du site et en plus avec un filtre anti-IA dans la recherche (c'est une curation humaine donc y'a des trous dans la raquette, mais c'est déjà ça) par défaut (tout ceci est configurable sur duckduckgo.com, mais ça ne reste pas en navigation privée, par exemple).

Dans firefox, vous pouvez aller dans les préférences de recherche (about:preferences#search) et ajouter un "raccourcis de recherche" (tout en bas) comme ça :
Nom du moteur de recherche: DuckDuckGo (no AI)
URL avec %s à la place de l’expression recherchée: noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

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@js
I've noticed that the 'AI' summaries I see on a search - #DuckDuckGo in my case - are often verbatim content from the top link.

What do they think this will do to decent content, and when it's all gone what will they return?

Engadget: DuckDuckGo now allows you to filter out AI images in search results. “DuckDuckGo is making it easier to wade through some of the AI slop that has taken over the internet in recent months. This week, the company introduced a new filter for removing AI-generated images from search results.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/21/engadget-duckduckgo-now-allows-you-to-filter-out-ai-images-in-search-results/

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