After months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome and the Google app. No wonder they wanted to hide it.
Spying on users has nothing to do with building a great web browser or search engine. We would know (our app is both in one).
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1371509053613084679
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pretty sure ddg is in the business of
greenprivacy-washing - -what you recommend instead duck.com ?
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Mojeek has been around for a long time now. They’re an independent ‘crawler-based’ search engine, based in the UK, with their own algorithm and index of web pages. UK ? No ty
from https://itsfoss.com/privacy-search-engines/
yup nothing surprising here
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Yep. Sure a dirty punch they landed here at Google. But am happy the message gets to reach more & more people.