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Didn’t DDG get caught allowing some Microsoft tracking and blocking some search results a couple of years back?
Personally I use Firefox and starpage as a search engine.
Didn’t DDG get caught allowing some Microsoft tracking and blocking some search results a couple of years back? Personally I use Firefox and starpage as a search engine.
Personally, I found people to be overreacting and DuckDuckGo‘s actions reasonable and transparent. Here’s the story:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/
I’ve used Startpage until they got bought by an ad company. Haven’t looked into it since then:
https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company
I think they had a contractual situation that they were navigating. They were transparent about it and resolved that situation quite quickly.
Edit: Due to using Bing as a backend. It was potentially an uncomfortable bind they found themselves in.
Yup - tracking and filtering search results; since then I stay away from DDG.