DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 6:34 AM UTC

Post by bad_user » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 6:37 AM UTC

McAtNite wrote: post #152

johntash wrote: post #139

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When it comes to a browser, I'm curious as well. I often end up with 100+ tabs in firefox before I close them all. I don't think think I'd consider that being a power user, but would a 10x power user simply mean someone with over 1,000 tabs open? I haven't used Chrome regularly in the last year or so, but it would get noticeably slow by the time I had 3-4 windows with 10-20 tabs each. Firefox hasn't really had that i…

I use Firefox day to day, but if I was a “power user” and picking apart web traffic everyday I’d probably use Chromium. The dev tools in it are way better than the ones built in Firefox.

Post by harry8 » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 6:42 AM UTC

pschastain wrote: post #163

jtdev wrote: post #118

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I don’t care if I get the favicon or not... can I just opt out of this functionality?

From elsewhere in this thread: https://duckduckgo.com/settings#appearance Uncheck the very last option "Site Icons"

Post by lowwave » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 6:47 AM UTC

ajnin wrote: post #89

tagawa wrote: post #52

DuckDuckGo staff here. As mentioned in the linked page, the purpose of the request is to retrieve a website's favicon so that it can be displayed in certain places within the app or on the results page. We use an internal favicon service because it can be complicated to locate a favicon for a website. They can be stored in a variety of locations and in a variety of formats. The service understands these edge cases an…

You really can't use "we promise we won't misuse the information" as an argument, that's what everyone says whether it's true or not, and the whole point of using a privacy-centric browser is that as a user you can't trust those kinds of promises.

Post by itsmeamario » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 6:58 AM UTC

leereeves wrote: post #216

abc-xyz wrote: post #203

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Also worth mentioning they're closed-source, US-based and for-profit. Why exactly do people trust them? Simply because they write a few articles/ads saying "privacy is important"? If you're willing to sacrifice search quality for privacy, as in switching from Google to DuckDuckGo, then you might as well take a step further and switch from Google to Searx/Ask.Moe.

As a DDG user I don't feel like I'm sacrificing anything. Two sets of results are better than one (I can see Google results by adding !g, which I do less than once per day on average) and, ironically, DDG bangs are the easiest way to use even Google services like Translate and Scholar.