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.

  • Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But he’s actually right. It does serve ads and it uses bing trackers despite them claiming they don’t track you.

    • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        Where should it be based then? I feel like you can’t trust any state to not do this sort of thing to fight “terrorism” and “crime”

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          I would say Switzerland.

          They have great privacy laws and a culture of secrecy from their banking history.

          They definitely would have an NSA equivalent but with far less reach I would think. They are a “neutral country” as I see it so they don’t need such a strong foreign spy agency…

          At the very least, the US would be one of worse choice possible for privacy that’s for sure.

          Keep in mind that the spying done by the NSA was fully legal there. They had this whole framework of laws to justify and authorize it.

          I mean the NSA intercepting CISCO routers to bug them ?

          That’s a bold move that most countries couldn’t do…

          https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/snowden--the-nsa-planted-backdoors-in-cisco-products.html

      • DTFpanda@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        And they could be under a gag order nobody would ever know.

        This sounds a little tinfoil-hat-y but I don’t really know what I’m talking about.

        • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
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          1 year ago

          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).

      • B0rax@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Well there is always the possibility to host it yourself (like on a raspberry pi), like SearxNG.

          • Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            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.