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tschakkaMarc

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About tschakkaMarc

Lives, defends and takes feedback for @cliqz Reachable at Twitter @MarcAlHames

Recent public activity

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    Comment #21729418

    Or via Tor browser as Onion service: search4tor7txuze.onion (quite unique - if available it will show onion services instead of www domains).

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    Comment #21729335

    Marc from Cliqz here: it’s something I’m thinking about a lot since years, it’s a very clean model. We even did some tests, but unfortunately the majority of people is not like hac…

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    Comment #21729162

    Well there are people who believe this and others who believe that ... as I said - very strong opinions (like yours) on both sides of the aisle even internally. Interesting proposa…

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    Comment #21729145

    @MarcAlHames on Twitter

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    Comment #21726672

    It’s the one time where I can honestly say: The discussion we’re having within Cliqz about our brand name are even more heated and controversial than here on Hacker News (and Reddi…

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    Comment #21725466

    Well, we released our beta search for Tor yesterday: search4tor7txuze.onion/ (works obviously only in the Tor browser). That’s as good as it gets regarding making it technically im…

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    Comment #21717597

    Thanks for the comment. Yes - it will only work in Tor or in a browser with a Tor tab (e.g., Brave).

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    Comment #21695783

    Hi – thanks for the feedback. I’m Marc (disclaimer, I work at Cliqz). The goal of the collaboration was to jointly build a better, more private search engine. Don’t forget that eve…

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    Comment #21693683

    And here are all details how we remove all personal information with a technology we call Human Web: https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-03/human-web-collecting-data-i... We love to get …

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    Comment #21688612

    There were extensive tests with opt-in before (Testpilot), but these are super biased towards techies/enthusiasts (by definition if you read HN or use Testpilot you’re not represen…

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    Comment #21678409

    One doesn't exclude the other. I admire a lot of what Google has done and agree on a very strong execution. This still doesn't change the fact, that a search engine (1) gets better…

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    Comment #21678370

    Yes, I’m defending it, because again: We took drastic steps to never send anything private (like checking within the browser whether the URL is unique or different if logged in or …

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    Comment #21677953

    Hi, Marc from Cliqz. This one haunts us (in HN and also in my dreams). Let's first get one thing clear: It was a terrible blog post. Second: The 1% who had Cliqz installed were act…

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    Comment #21676590

    Hi, Marc from Cliqz (and one of the authors of the linked article): We at Cliqz do try and others (like mojeek in the UK or Seznam in Czech) are trying as well. But yes, it has ver…

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    Comment #21676564

    Hi, Marc here, I work at Cliqz. We (unfortunately) don’t (at least not a reasonable amount). We have an advertising model, but it does not rely on any personal data. We also always…