NewYorkRush to Privacy@lemmy.ml • 2 years agoDo you think DuckDuckGo is a good choice for people who are concerned about their privacy?lemmy.caimagemessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down17
arrow-up1107arrow-down1imageDo you think DuckDuckGo is a good choice for people who are concerned about their privacy?lemmy.caNewYorkRush to Privacy@lemmy.ml • 2 years agomessage-square58fedilink
minus-square@svamp@lemmy.mllinkfedilink1•2 years 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-square@Onse@lemmy.mllinkfedilink2•2 years 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-square@CrypticCoffee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•edit-22 years 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-square@entropicshart@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•2 years 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
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.
Yup - tracking and filtering search results; since then I stay away from DDG.