This validates my stubborn commitment to DuckDuckGo, ty
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Which defaults to Bing, to whom ddg sends all your queries. I use ddg.
from what I understand, only the search terms themselves, separate from all info from the specific user's hardware and any other user metadata from the user that inputted them, are aggregated for analytics, so it's not like it's straight using bing directly
IYour article says since August, 2022. Thanks for the update.
yep, because a piece of misinformation has always stopped being spread by everyone everywhere when specific outlets reveal it's misinformation
edit: there's also the part that says "This story dates back to March 2022." when DDG found the scripts MS was running to get their data, and blocked them
edit2: I did some digging on your source. The site is ran by someone named "Kurt the Cyberguy". His linkedin, at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtknutsson (clear cookies if the site gives a login screen, it gives the 1st view fine), shows he's a "CyberGuy Report syndicated tech contributor" to FOX News for 10 years up to present, and "CEO/Founder "The CyberGuy Report"" with the description, "The CyberGuy Report is syndicated daily to FOX News, FOX Business, FOX Sports, NY Post, Yahoo! News along with TV and radio stations throughout America".
I'm sure someone with heavy ties into FOX News wouldn't have any motivation to sabotage DDG to strengthen other search engines that loves targeting ads to users
That probably wasn’t the original source where I read it. I think it was some privacy or security blog, it seems they’d tested a bunch of browsers. It was posted at the place that shan’t be named a while ago.
I also apologize if my reply came off really snarky, overly sarcastic, and almost combative (after I reread through it), I haven't had my juicebox for the day
No worries, I’m having mine, now. With gin!
And it fucking blows now. You don't get shit but ads.
They’re somehow WORSE than duckduckgo nowadays like how? You were the search leader, people used DDG for privacy reasons but they passed you??? Did you forget why you’re a company? It’s because you were the best fucking search engine ever and you decided to sell that title for ads or some shit. Incredible how Google fell off the fucking side of a mountain they themselves built!
Kagi is even better than DDG. Google is absolutely horrendous.
It’s interesting, but $120 a year is just too much for me.
The lowest plan is only $54 a year and it’s most definitely worth it for the results.
300 searches a month is just way too little for my usage
I happily pay $10 a month for Kagi and it’s freaking great.
I’m never going back to Google.
You pay for a search engine? You have a subscription to a search engine? I'm I understanding that right?
It is a search engine right? My brain is struggling with this.
Is there something about search engines, as opposed to other online services, that makes you expect them to be free?