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DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort

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Re: DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort

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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.

I'll bite. How are DDG and Brave not helping to protect your privacy?

Re: DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort

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If 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

Why would Bing cancel, they're presumably making money off of the arrangement. And DDG-users would likely not migrate to Bing, but to Google: if you have to use a product by an anti-privacy-corporation, might as well use the good one.

Re: DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort

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If 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.

It's difficult to say as they are not open about it.

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.

Re: DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort

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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.

I'll bite. How are DDG and Brave not helping to protect your privacy?

Brave indeed should not be trusted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027.

Re: DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort

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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.

No offence but going to need some links given your HN account is in the negative.

Re: DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort

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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.

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.

Re: DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort

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post #6

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.

Exactly... They'll just censor you of course - but you're right. DDG is controlled opposition.

Lenin — 'The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.'

Re: DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort

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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.

I'll bite. How are DDG and Brave not helping to protect your privacy?

As long as we go and just criticize, or say X should not be trasted, I think we are not helping move things forward on the privacy front. It's a good thing that people make tools. Some are OK, some are not doing the job. Eventually, overall, there'll be some progress. At least, there is a discussion and awareness.

Re: DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort

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Earlier 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.

It's not about having the privacy policy, it's about what it says. DuckDuckGo says it does not collect anything. What do others say?

Re: DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort

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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.

No offence but going to need some links given your HN account is in the negative.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_Database
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