So nobody will mention Mr. Weinberg business history. His last company used to accumulate private personal user info and then sell all to brokers and advertisers. DDG and privacy is a literal oxymoron just like Brave and privacy are. Google and Microsoft Edge are more private even though neither has any privacy.
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#12If Bing ever drops DuckDuckGo, will there be a search engine they can fall back on?
That's my main concern. Duckduckgo is used more than Bing in many countries and Microsoft might just cancel their access some day. There is always Yandex I guess
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#13If Bing ever drops DuckDuckGo, will there be a search engine they can fall back on?
they use bing only for some stuff, not as their backend. they will do just fine without bing.
Personally, I think they would suffer. Their API https://duckduckgo.com/api shows what they can provide as result. I believe the reason why it's missing a lot, most of the actual results, is because Microsoft Bing doesn't allow to offer a public API to redistribute the results from the Bing API.
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#14So nobody will mention Mr. Weinberg business history. His last company used to accumulate private personal user info and then sell all to brokers and advertisers. DDG and privacy is a literal oxymoron just like Brave and privacy are. Google and Microsoft Edge are more private even though neither has any privacy.
I'll bite. How are DDG and Brave not helping to protect your privacy?
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#15So nobody will mention Mr. Weinberg business history. His last company used to accumulate private personal user info and then sell all to brokers and advertisers. DDG and privacy is a literal oxymoron just like Brave and privacy are. Google and Microsoft Edge are more private even though neither has any privacy.
Re: DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort
#16So nobody will mention Mr. Weinberg business history. His last company used to accumulate private personal user info and then sell all to brokers and advertisers. DDG and privacy is a literal oxymoron just like Brave and privacy are. Google and Microsoft Edge are more private even though neither has any privacy.
Just read their privacy policy: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy .
In practice these documents don't really relate what the company is actually doing with your data. It's just something that has to be there on a website.
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#17So nobody will mention Mr. Weinberg business history. His last company used to accumulate private personal user info and then sell all to brokers and advertisers. DDG and privacy is a literal oxymoron just like Brave and privacy are. Google and Microsoft Edge are more private even though neither has any privacy.
Lenin — 'The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.'
Re: DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort
#18So nobody will mention Mr. Weinberg business history. His last company used to accumulate private personal user info and then sell all to brokers and advertisers. DDG and privacy is a literal oxymoron just like Brave and privacy are. Google and Microsoft Edge are more private even though neither has any privacy.
I'll bite. How are DDG and Brave not helping to protect your privacy?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just read their privacy policy: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy .
Facebook and Google has a privacy policy too. Even the NSA has a privacy policy : https://www.nsa.gov/terms-of-use/#privacy In practice these documents don't really relate what the company is actually doing with your data. It's just something that has to be there on a website.
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#20So nobody will mention Mr. Weinberg business history. His last company used to accumulate private personal user info and then sell all to brokers and advertisers. DDG and privacy is a literal oxymoron just like Brave and privacy are. Google and Microsoft Edge are more private even though neither has any privacy.
No offence but going to need some links given your HN account is in the negative.