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Do you think DuckDuckGo is a good choice for people who are concerned about their privacy? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by Kagathara@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] DocBarkowitz@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fair point. Because I don’t have control over my information when directly utilizing a service that I do not own. I don’t trust DDG or any search engine to honor their commitments. In the specific case of DDG they are basically a proxy for Microsoft ad syndication and any of the tracking that comes along with that.

Also back to why I prefer searxng over any single search engine. If one engine decides to censor results, chances are all of them have not and searxng will combine results from all of them so it helps mitigate censorship.

My decision to use searxng while is in part due to DDG being in bed with Microsoft, ultimately it’s due to the entire search engine ecosystem being sketchy.

[–] DocBarkowitz@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that’s annoying. I edited the comment above and for some reason Lemmy says it was deleted :/

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I see two comments now. Seems to me like the editing worked.