DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
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Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#2No thank you. I appreciate what DDG is trying to do but in the end, a search engine that makes money from selling ads trying to protect me from another search engine that also sells ads is just feeding the ecosystem.
I am going to put my money into FF no matter how annoying some of the things in it are.
Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#3No thank you. I appreciate what DDG is trying to do but in the end, a search engine that makes money from selling ads trying to protect me from another search engine that also sells ads is just feeding the ecosystem. I am going to put my money into FF no matter how annoying some of the things in it are.
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Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#4No thank you. I appreciate what DDG is trying to do but in the end, a search engine that makes money from selling ads trying to protect me from another search engine that also sells ads is just feeding the ecosystem. I am going to put my money into FF no matter how annoying some of the things in it are.
FF as in Firefox?
Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#5Even without privacy considerations though, duckduckgo seems to give me better results, I've been using it as my default search engine for years
Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#6uBlockOrigin already blocks FLoC in their privacy list and there are ideas to integrate it further as I understand [1]. So for all of us using that extension, there's no need to install DDG as well.
[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1553
Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#7No thank you. I appreciate what DDG is trying to do but in the end, a search engine that makes money from selling ads trying to protect me from another search engine that also sells ads is just feeding the ecosystem. I am going to put my money into FF no matter how annoying some of the things in it are.
I'm honestly ok with ads, I am not ok with "personalised" ads
Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#8Even without privacy considerations though, duckduckgo seems to give me better results, I've been using it as my default search engine for years
Are you based in the US? I found them really bad for localized results outside of the US, even when local mode is enabled (although that's annoying to do manually). In the end I used !g for so many search queries that I switched back again.
Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#9No thank you. I appreciate what DDG is trying to do but in the end, a search engine that makes money from selling ads trying to protect me from another search engine that also sells ads is just feeding the ecosystem. I am going to put my money into FF no matter how annoying some of the things in it are.
Is there another search engine you recommend instead?
Re: DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
#10uBlockOrigin already blocks FLoC in their privacy list and there are ideas to integrate it further as I understand [1]. So for all of us using that extension, there's no need to install DDG as well. [1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1553
This was a bit confusing for me to read at first.
DDF is of course a search engine and doesn't need to be installed.
DDG now also has an extension which blocks FloC (a feature which the uBlockOrigin extension seems to not have full support for - correct me I could be wrong, but that looks like an open issue?)
So you can install the DDG extension now, or install the uBlockOrigin extension - but possibly have to wait for full integration.