News Duckduckgo tracks you and sells data to Microsoft

[blackraven]

The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo browser purposely allows Microsoft trackers on third-party sites due to an agreement in their syndicated search content contract between the two companies.

DuckDuckGo is a search engine that prides itself on its privacy by not tracking your searches or your behavior while performing searches. Furthermore, instead of building user profiles to display interest-based advertisements, DuckDuckGo will use contextual advertisements from partners, like Ads by Microsoft.



While DuckDuckGo does not store any personal identifiers with your search queries, Microsoft advertising may track your IP address and other information when clicking on an ad link for "accounting purposes" but it is not associated with a user advertising profile.

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Further tests showed that DuckDuckGo allowed trackers related to the bing.com and linkedin.com domains while blocking all other trackers. [...]

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DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement

The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo browser purposely allows Microsoft trackers on third-party sites due to an agreement in their syndicated search content contract between the two companies.

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[Chingaquedito]

yandex is better

 

[blackraven]

yandex is better

it's better in terms of when you really need to find something you can't on google or ddg but in terms of privacy t's literally russian spyware so..

 

[El Enemigo]

There's no privacy now

 

[Chingaquedito]

it's better in terms of when you really need to find something you can't on google or ddg

this is the only thing that matters

 

[Emba]

Just block all cookies and java

Or stop using it. I

 

[Ducky]

Damn and Ive been using DDG. Thanks for the info

 

[CroatianManlet]

Jewjewgo is literaly made by a jew

 

[ControlledInsanity]

Once Gabriel Weinberg has finished slurping globalist cock at the Davos gas station restrooms he'll be flown home at the expense of his Monarch mind controllers in exchange for everlasting loyalty in closed door data slurping programs. jfl if you don't at least put DuckDuckGlow traffic behind some anonymizing network.

 

[bigantennaemay1]

Welp, so much for that. Why am I not surprised.

 

[ControlledInsanity]

DuckDuckGlow has been caught using tracking cookies and tracking pixels. Their "privacy" policy clearly states that they save searches and aggregate search data as well as run user experiments.

The nail in the coffin was their admission to manipulating search results to stand with $CURRENT_THING. No point in using a search engine if it
Spies on you
Experiments on you
Hides things from you
Shares data with partners (and glowies)

jfl at anyone who still uses that shit.

 

[BraincelsRefugee]

Switched to Startpage