• NoiseColor@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    That would be a nice commercial for duckduckgo. But it would totally make sense for the user. I bet Google payed a lot of money for that not to happen.

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    1 year ago

    Mmm… I can kinda see the argument. DuckDuckGo may not be collecting your info, specifically, but anything remotely loaded certainly is.

    Still, shouldn’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

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      1 year ago

      Their competitor is Google Search, which is basically surveillance at this point. And they are worried that DDG may leak some data 🙄

      And let’s get real, we all know this isn’t some tech problem, this is 100% political; nothing to do with the underlying tech in the least.

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      I suspect the objection had to do with some misinformation regarding the Duckduckgo browser. I remember reading about the issue and thinking it was about search, too.

      The DDG CEO wrote up a response on Reddit and it explains it very well. Here’s a link to the comment on the Wayback machine.