DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers

Post by aronpye » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 7:08 AM UTC

tagawa wrote: post #79

tananaev wrote: post #2

Very weak argument for why they do it. Using a service to retrieve a favicon? Surely there's a way to implement the same logic locally.

We had already had created this anonymous favicon service for our private search engine. In addition, doing it this way avoids another request (and potentially multiple) to the end site. The service is private as we do not collect any personal information (e.g. IP addresses) on any requests for this or any service and the requests are all end-to-end encrypted.

Post by TheSpiceIsLife » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 7:09 AM UTC

reitzensteinm wrote: post #234

hst-m wrote: post #200

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They call it the "DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser" yet it sends data back to their servers on every site you visit. Collecting all your search terms and saving them wasn't enough, now they want data on all the sites you visit outside of the DDG search page. That they refuse to turn it off tells you they are just as data-focused as every other company. They should update their app description: "By the way, every website yo…

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Post by jb775 » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 7:12 AM UTC

tagawa wrote: post #79

tananaev wrote: post #2

Very weak argument for why they do it. Using a service to retrieve a favicon? Surely there's a way to implement the same logic locally.

We had already had created this anonymous favicon service for our private search engine. In addition, doing it this way avoids another request (and potentially multiple) to the end site. The service is private as we do not collect any personal information (e.g. IP addresses) on any requests for this or any service and the requests are all end-to-end encrypted.

Post by Kiro » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 7:16 AM UTC

Nextgrid wrote: post #62

stan_rogers wrote: post #45

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There's always Startpage. You use Startpage; Startpage uses Google for you, with their own user agent - no history, no tracking.

How does that work? What does Google have to gain from it? Google has pretty aggressive anti-scraping protections to protect against this exact behavior, so why would they allow Startpage to get away with it? What does Startpage have to gain from it? Unlike DDG, they don't seem to have any core product, so they fully depend on Google's goodwill which is very shaky grounds when it comes to a long-term business.

Post by imtringued » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 7:22 AM UTC

McAtNite wrote: post #152

johntash wrote: post #139

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When it comes to a browser, I'm curious as well. I often end up with 100+ tabs in firefox before I close them all. I don't think think I'd consider that being a power user, but would a 10x power user simply mean someone with over 1,000 tabs open? I haven't used Chrome regularly in the last year or so, but it would get noticeably slow by the time I had 3-4 windows with 10-20 tabs each. Firefox hasn't really had that i…

I use Firefox day to day, but if I was a “power user” and picking apart web traffic everyday I’d probably use Chromium. The dev tools in it are way better than the ones built in Firefox.