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DuckDuckGo Calls Out Google Search for 'Spying' on Users After Privacy Labels Go Live
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If you're basing this off of Apple's privacy labels, then I guarantee you they collect information that you didn't expect them to. Besides, even if you knew all of the information they collected I bet you would be stunned to see the kind of profiles they can build on people.
Same here… just stick with Safari it tells me that it prevented 51 trackers on this macrumors.com web page hmmmmm
False, "not immune to this either" implies DDG has the SAME privacy issues as Google. If you read the article you linked you would quickly notice that's not necessarily true. DDG is leagues better than Google even when taking into account the issues in your article.
I’ve been using DDG exclusively since 2011. Never looking back. Stuff Google.
Ok but seriously, who even used Windows Safari? Besides me.
I get it, people say DDG's search results aren't as good as Google's and in some cases I agree. Personally I don't mind sacrificing some convenience in order to combat Google and generally speaking I think taking on these monopolistic megacorps will require that sort of sacrifice initially.
However, if you really want Google's search results with less tracking, here are two alternatives:
1) https://www.startpage.com/ pays for Google's official search results API but doesn't utilize the same sort of tracking that Google does, they have a similar ad model to DDG.
2) https://searx.space/ SearX is a "metasearch" engine that aggregates search results from a plethora of different providers (Google, DDG, Bing, Amazon, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc.) into a page. It calls the search APIs directly from the searx host machine thereby bypassing much of the tracking BS. The link I provided lists a bunch of public searx instances for you to choose from but you can host your own too if that's your thing.
However, if you really want Google's search results with less tracking, here are two alternatives:
1) https://www.startpage.com/ pays for Google's official search results API but doesn't utilize the same sort of tracking that Google does, they have a similar ad model to DDG.
2) https://searx.space/ SearX is a "metasearch" engine that aggregates search results from a plethora of different providers (Google, DDG, Bing, Amazon, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc.) into a page. It calls the search APIs directly from the searx host machine thereby bypassing much of the tracking BS. The link I provided lists a bunch of public searx instances for you to choose from but you can host your own too if that's your thing.
Yes. I tried maybe for 2 weeks and I would get terrible search results, granted that was 6-9months ago but just went back to google for searches. Perhaps I should try DuckDuckGo again and see if the search results improve.
They don’t collect anything that the government doesn’t already collect on their own. It’s difficult to hide your digital fingerprint so I don’t even bother. Hey, they know I watch anime, play video games, and pay my taxes online. Oh, freaking, well.
Is this about the search engine or the browser app. the article seems very mixed up to me.
How does DDG make money.
www.techjunkie.com
How Does DuckDuckGo Make Money
The idea of a search engine that doesn’t spy on you (not as much as the likes of Google, at least) sounds extremely appealing. However, you may assume
www.techjunkie.com
Why the quotes around "spying"? Google is literally a spyware company that sells YOU (drawn in by stupid free ****) as the product to their customers (advertisers). Read their reports to shareholders, securities filings, etc.
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I ditched Google a while back and haven't looked back either. DDG is great but I am beginning to prefer Ecosia as another search engine alternative.
www.ecosia.org
Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees
Ecosia uses the ad revenue from your searches to plant trees where they are needed the most. By searching with Ecosia, you’re not only reforesting our planet, but you’re also empowering the communities around our planting projects to build a better future for themselves. Give it a try!
Did you notice it specifically collects contact information? Why would they need that for anonymized data. They wouldn’t. That is how Apple performs, but Google wants specific data.
remember this is the company that was fined for tracking Apple users who requested do not track, using an internal hack. They are also currently being sued for continuing to track user in chrome when the entered incognito mode. They cannot be trusted.
I've been using DuckDuckGo for several years now. It has been getting progressively better all the time. I still need to add the !g redirect every now and then to find something DuckDuckGo has trouble with, but that's getting less and less frequent.
I tried Brave, but was less impressed. It seemed to break some websites, and although I'm sure I could tweak it to work properly, it seemed too time consuming to sort out so I switched back to Firefox. I did, however, add the DuckDuckGo extension, so it does work a little harder to prevent tracking than straight-up Firefox would. I'll jump back into Brave a few more iterations down the road to see if its improved.
It doesn’t matter which 🌍 World Wide Web browser you use...
Because blood 🩸 sucking parasites 🕷 Thiel, Zuckberg, Dorsey, Musk and Andreessen will still be gobbling up data, using troll 😈 farms, helping actual neo Nazis, trying to monetize 💰 everything including the worst crimes imaginable.
These people wake up every morning of their lives and wonder who they can exploit, disrupt and destroy because they think they are unaccountable. They need all the data in the world to do that and don’t care what browser you use.
Wish we could have the good old days of CEOs like Jobs and Gates just giving us tools we need to do our jobs and that’s enough.
Because blood 🩸 sucking parasites 🕷 Thiel, Zuckberg, Dorsey, Musk and Andreessen will still be gobbling up data, using troll 😈 farms, helping actual neo Nazis, trying to monetize 💰 everything including the worst crimes imaginable.
These people wake up every morning of their lives and wonder who they can exploit, disrupt and destroy because they think they are unaccountable. They need all the data in the world to do that and don’t care what browser you use.
Wish we could have the good old days of CEOs like Jobs and Gates just giving us tools we need to do our jobs and that’s enough.
Well of course DuckDuckGo is going to call out Google for this. Google is their main competitor, and they position themselves as being better than Google because they don't collect this information. In reality there is no proof Google delayed the updates because they want to hide this. That could be the reason, but there's no proof it is.
I use Safari for the iCloud syncing features (when they work), 1Blocker, and DuckDuckGo for searching. VPN for an additional layer of protection from my snooping ISP.
Nothing you do digitally can be considered totally secure, but you can’t get much worse than Google.
Nothing you do digitally can be considered totally secure, but you can’t get much worse than Google.