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DuckDuckGo Calls Out Google Search for 'Spying' on Users After Privacy Labels Go Live
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Google and a few other **** companies are places that I'd never want to work at so your point is moot.
Not being on social media is probably more of a disadvantage but at least I can say with all honesty...
"I don't feel the need to waste my time with Social Media. There are more important things in life."
If I was interviewing at say Facebook (highly unlikely) then this would count against me. But for many better employers, this would be seen as an advantage. I know it is with my current employer. They re-hired me after I'd been retired for a year because they needed to get stuff done for their customers.
From the article you link to:
"However, anyone with access to your computer can view your searches in plain-text in your browsing history. If any user, or person with access to my computer, can view my search history, there is a clear conflict with the privacy claims that DDG delivers."
You can tell DuckDuckGo to not save your browser history.
Anyway, I do not consider this to be a real privacy issue. If you let other people have access to your computer, you face a very different level of privacy challenges.
In the rich sphere of all things that have been somewhat delayed, the enflagment of candidates like Google will be considered a default perfunctory pursuit.
I think they're all complicit. All of them. Not just the search engines. I mean the tech companies too, ones that promise data privacy but still buy aggregated data and research statistics from sources that don't meet their standards.
It takes less than 30 seconds to change your default search engine but I see where you are coming from.
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I am definitely biased away from the lying Google platform. My example, although not the same exact thing shows a very similar mindset that is shown in this thread. Many people rationalize things they shouldn’t. People are doing that in this thread.
They still track you while in "incognito" mode. There's a lawsuit against google for this very reason.
The elephant in the room is server side tracking. You can use DDG, Firefox, Brave, VPNs, but you’re still being tracked. People like to go after Google because they are monolithic
I don't mean to hate on the duck, but...
notice how DDG always picks on Google but never talk about Microsoft or Bing?
That is because DDG is not a search engine. They are a middle man between you and Bing. They serve Bing results. They have a contract with Microsoft.
If you want google results in a more private manner use startpage.com .
That is because of how much Google hoards and processes data. A by-product of the strategic choice to be more private. Same reason why Siri is dumber than Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa.
In the words of Google's CEO Eric Schmidt:
notice how DDG always picks on Google but never talk about Microsoft or Bing?
That is because DDG is not a search engine. They are a middle man between you and Bing. They serve Bing results. They have a contract with Microsoft.
If you want google results in a more private manner use startpage.com .
That is because of how much Google hoards and processes data. A by-product of the strategic choice to be more private. Same reason why Siri is dumber than Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa.
In the words of Google's CEO Eric Schmidt:
“We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about”
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Google’s well-known slogan was actually a typo.
Google: do no evil →
Google do know evil.
I've been using DDG for about 2 years now. It took some getting used to - I had to learn to change my search results a bit. I still have to use bing if I'm doing breaking news searching or code searches but ... for most of the stuff DDG has worked really well for me. I have it default on all my devices.
Yep, part of why DDG might work so well for me is that I used Bing years before switching to DDG so ... I was right at home. It's amazing how few people realize this. lol.
Free Google services is great for all the so called 'socialists', nothing but a bunch of freeloaders for handouts. /s
On a side-note, I have been using DDG for about 5 years, I have been happy with the search results I get.
On a side-note, I have been using DDG for about 5 years, I have been happy with the search results I get.
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