Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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After months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome and the Google app. No wonder they wanted to hide it.
Spying on users has nothing to do with building a great web browser or search engine. We would know (our app is both in one).
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1371509053613084679
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pretty sure ddg is in the business of ~~green~~privacy-washing - -
what you recommend instead duck.com ?
searx or whoogle. You can try Mojeek and Gigablast if you want to try an independent engine.
Mojeek has been around for a long time now. They’re an independent ‘crawler-based’ search engine, based in the UK, with their own algorithm and index of web pages. UK ? No ty
Makes you wonder what they did while they were stalling.
And with all due respect to DDG, here is the rest of their report and with a MS partnership and living in an age of Data re-identification or de-anonymization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_re-identification it’s hard to be sure what “Data Not Linked to You” means.
https://i.ibb.co/D7p4nM1/50-F781-E7-227-C-485-E-BFEA-34-D368-DDBBDE.jpg
yup nothing surprising here
