Apple considered ditching Google for DuckDuckGo in Safari’s private mode | But Apple exec argued DuckDuckGo wasn’t as private as believed.::But Apple exec argued DuckDuckGo wasn’t as private as believed.
Apple considered ditching Google for DuckDuckGo in Safari’s private mode | But Apple exec argued DuckDuckGo wasn’t as private as believed.::But Apple exec argued DuckDuckGo wasn’t as private as believed.
I’m not a great as an Apple Exec, but I think he’s wrong.
I think you are.
The bar is not a high one, if that is his best argument for avoiding Google.
But he’s actually right. It does serve ads and it uses bing trackers despite them claiming they don’t track you.
They block Bing trackers.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/microsoft-trackers-run-afoul-of-duckduckgo-get-added-to-blocklist/
Also DDG is US based and has to submit to all the privacy invading American agencies. And they could be under a gag order nobody would ever know.
If privacy was a genuine concern for DDG they would have never based their business in the US.
This sounds a little tinfoil-hat-y but I don’t really know what I’m talking about.
It was done in the past for larger US based businesses. I don’t see why it couldn’t be done with DDG.
Also, if your businesses is under a gag order the most logical thing to do is to act like nothing is happening. Because for DDG privacy IS the product. They don’t have better results than Google they are trying to differentiate through privacy (or the appearance of privacy).
Interesting, thanks for the insight.
Can you recommend a search engine that doesn’t do that?
Well there is always the possibility to host it yourself (like on a raspberry pi), like SearxNG.
Yeeeah, no one except the most paranoid people will do that.
Well yeah, paranoid but also people who are sick of providing valuable data(capital) to a business model that thrives on the worst traits of the internet.