They’re only addressing it now because suddenly there is more press on it, and it has reached a point where they’d lose some serious marketshare if they continued looking the other way. It’s disgusting that they were able to collect data for a year after the report was filed.
Looks like the CEO caught wind and has said they’re going to fix it: https://web.archive.org/web/20200702100513/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23711597
It’s worth noting that DDG has conveniently ignored this “bug” for a year, and it isn’t a one-off incident. DDG has a history of wrongdoing:
https://lemmy.ml/post/31321
They’re only addressing it now because suddenly there is more press on it, and it has reached a point where they’d lose some serious marketshare if they continued looking the other way. It’s disgusting that they were able to collect data for a year after the report was filed.
That’s unsettling…