NewYorkRush@lemmy.ca to Privacy · 1 year agoDo you think DuckDuckGo is a good choice for people who are concerned about their privacy?lemmy.caimagemessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1391arrow-down113
arrow-up1378arrow-down1imageDo you think DuckDuckGo is a good choice for people who are concerned about their privacy?lemmy.caNewYorkRush@lemmy.ca to Privacy · 1 year agomessage-square87fedilink
minus-squaresvamplinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down5·1 year agoDidn’t DDG get caught allowing some Microsoft tracking and blocking some search results a couple of years back? Personally I use Firefox and starpage as a search engine.
minus-squareOnselinkfedilinkarrow-up26arrow-down1·1 year agoPersonally, I found people to be overreacting and DuckDuckGo‘s actions reasonable and transparent. Here’s the story: https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/ I’ve used Startpage until they got bought by an ad company. Haven’t looked into it since then: https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company
minus-squareHizeh@hizeh.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoThat adds interesting context. Thanks for links.
minus-squareCrypticCoffee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoI think they had a contractual situation that they were navigating. They were transparent about it and resolved that situation quite quickly. Edit: Due to using Bing as a backend. It was potentially an uncomfortable bind they found themselves in.
minus-squareentropicshart@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·1 year agoYup - tracking and filtering search results; since then I stay away from DDG.
Didn’t DDG get caught allowing some Microsoft tracking and blocking some search results a couple of years back? Personally I use Firefox and starpage as a search engine.
Personally, I found people to be overreacting and DuckDuckGo‘s actions reasonable and transparent. Here’s the story:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/
I’ve used Startpage until they got bought by an ad company. Haven’t looked into it since then:
https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company
That adds interesting context. Thanks for links.
Didn’t know this, thanks for the links.
I think they had a contractual situation that they were navigating. They were transparent about it and resolved that situation quite quickly.
Edit: Due to using Bing as a backend. It was potentially an uncomfortable bind they found themselves in.
Ah, gotcha.
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Yup - tracking and filtering search results; since then I stay away from DDG.
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