Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely
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Re: Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely
#2I've also noticed the quality of DuckDuckGo search results has been steadily improving, especially over the past year. I would encourage anyone who tried it and went back to another search engine to consider giving DuckDuckGo another shot--you may be pleasantly surprised!
Re: Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely
#3Just look at Europe's cookie law and law about removal of "personal information" from Google search, how well regulations work.
Re: Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely
#4I don't want to sound too pessimistic and I agree with the sentiment of the article, but I think people need to come to terms with that there isn't really a choice to be made here. Just like you suddenly isn't going to change the at least decade old path of the NSA, you aren't suddenly going to change the fundamentals of the Internet. The choices that affects us now has to a large extent already been made and we are living with the consequences.
Re: Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely
#5I'm curious if data privacy & protection will ever emerge from its little corner where a few passionate folks worry about it while the masses blithely ignore how their personal data is used and abused.
Couple of other related items just from today indicate this _may_ be taking on steam but we've seen this kind of blip before just to see it fade.
1. Helping Prove Mr. Weinberg's going (CEO of DuckDuckGo) is an article on how heath web sites share your search queries with 3rd parties found at http://motherboard.vice.com/read/looking-up-symptoms-online-... Nice to know that WebMD et al are sharing your _assumed_ private searched for whatever itch you might have with others.
2. Symantec published results of their European survey on the topic of Data Privacy found at http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/about/presskits/b-stat... Not sure I believe a survey where the respondents claim to read the terms of service 25% of the time.... My guess would have been .25% of the time.
Re: Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely
#6People are willing to trade personally-identifiable information for a Snickers bar.* Until and unless that changes, privacy doesn't have sufficient value to change the status quo very much.
*Really, they'll even trade it for intangible gold. http://candycrushgametactics.com/get-free-gold-bars-in-candy...
Re: Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely
#7I've also noticed the quality of DuckDuckGo search results has been steadily improving, especially over the past year. I would encourage anyone who tried it and went back to another search engine to consider giving DuckDuckGo another shot--you may be pleasantly surprised!
Agreed. By using them more often, you're only going to help them improve.
Re: Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely
#8I've also noticed the quality of DuckDuckGo search results has been steadily improving, especially over the past year. I would encourage anyone who tried it and went back to another search engine to consider giving DuckDuckGo another shot--you may be pleasantly surprised!
I just read Gabriel's post, and I pretty much agree (and do) with what he says. Due to these shared believes I've been using DDG quite a bit, I even deleted the Google search app from my phone, and instead been using DDG's iOS app as my default mobile search engine.
However, every time I use DDG it hurts a bit. The quality of the results are very far behind from that of Google's. I many times end up doing a Google search in incognito mode because DDG just doesn't cut it. I hope DDG improves, because I haven't seen that improvement during the past year.
Re: Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely
#9The myth of "partially anonymize" data is infuriating. As an academic exercise I've begun to pore over Privacy Policies for web new services I find, specifically how my account info will be used with third parties.
No new consumer oriented web product in their right mind would advertise "we monetize your data with third parties", but they all include language in their Privacy Policies about sharing "partially anonymize" data. It might make you feel safe and sound when it comes to Company X protecting your identity, but marketers and other organizations don't look at data points in a vacuum, everything is in aggregate, and your aggregate profile represents you to the highest degree of certainty.
Re: Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely
#10I've also noticed the quality of DuckDuckGo search results has been steadily improving, especially over the past year. I would encourage anyone who tried it and went back to another search engine to consider giving DuckDuckGo another shot--you may be pleasantly surprised!
I just read Gabriel's post, and I pretty much agree (and do) with what he says. Due to these shared believes I've been using DDG quite a bit, I even deleted the Google search app from my phone, and instead been using DDG's iOS app as my default mobile search engine. However, every time I use DDG it hurts a bit. The quality of the results are very far behind from that of Google's. I many times end up doing a Google se…
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