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You don't have to trust it. You can sniff 100% of the traffic coming out of your own computer. You can even configure a firewall to block all traffic to Google's netblocks.
All of which is pointless, since you have already installed their binaries.
Using DuckDuckGo in Chrome is like asking for privacy while walking around naked in Times Square. Chrome has 100% unrestricted access to anything your user can access on your PC, no matter what search engine you choose.
Do the autocomplete results still go to google? If so, then enabling DDG on chrome is indeed fruitless.
The only thing stopping me from making this switch is that doing arithmetic in the url bar stops working... I use that quite a bit. Is this some deep integration with chrome or can it be made to work with ddg as well?
Did google do the math without hitting send? This works for me https://duckduckgo.com/?q=5*5
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Have you seen the ! queries on DuckDuckGo? If you add !g to a search, it redirects you to Google. !i goes to Google Image search. I guess there are others.
There are quite a few! And the list is growing... :) https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
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All of which is pointless, since you have already installed their binaries.
Even if you have their binaries they'd have to communicate home to transgress your privacy.
You're suggesting people that already stated a distrust in Google do a thorough network traffic analysis after every update, so that they know their privacy is violated after the fact? That's a bit ridiculous, really.
i always make ddg my default... but then ill just use google for a sec and forget to change my search back to ddg and then without noticing ill be using google for the next week. .... so my project for the weekend is to make a firefox extension that resets your search default every X hours/days.
Why not use Startpage then? It uses Google's results, but without the spying.
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Even if you have their binaries they'd have to communicate home to transgress your privacy.
edit: Missed the suggestion to block traffic entirely with a firewall - thought the discussion was only on sniffing traffic. Less ridiculous then :) You're suggesting people that already stated a distrust in Google do a thorough network traffic analysis after every update, so that they know their privacy is violated after the fact? That's a bit ridiculous, really.
Using DuckDuckGo in Chrome is like asking for privacy while walking around naked in Times Square. Chrome has 100% unrestricted access to anything your user can access on your PC, no matter what search engine you choose.
Here's a full list of what data is sent back to google: http://lifehacker.com/5763452/what-data-does-chrome-send-to-... Do the autocomplete results still go to google? If so, then enabling DDG on chrome is indeed fruitless.