Comment on Ecosia adds Microsoft Clarity and optional Google search results and advertising

DuskyRo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  aren’t they using bing also? (I never checked, and still not going to check right now… because I’m …)

  I’m using duckduckgo but how would they avoid this if Microsoft make it mandatory by contract?

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  • NotAPenguin@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/

    They block the tracking.

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    • andthenthreemore@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      company has announced it’s been able to amend terms with Microsoft, its search syndication partner, that had previously meant its mobile browsers and browser extensions were prevented from blocking advertising requests made by Microsoft scripts on third party sites.

      Wonder how they were able to negotiate what even ecosia weren’t.

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      • NotAPenguin@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I'm guessing they have quite a bit more users and thus can negotiate better.

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    • Vincent@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That doesn't seem to mention Microsoft Clarity, other than it being on the list of domains that its ad blocker (not its search engine) blocks?

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      • NotAPenguin@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Clarity.ms is on the list of blocked domains, I believe these are also blocked on the search engine.

        https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/no-tracking/

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  • mouse@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    According to them DuckDuckGo largely sources Bing, however they also have their own crawler called DuckDuckBot.

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• Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My only concern with DDG is that they are US based and as far as I know they can be submitted to a gag order and forced to silently give private data to some agencies.

  After the Snowden leaks this doesn’t inspire much confidence in their ability to protect the privacy of their users.

  I think they simply can’t guarantee any privacy even if they have good intentions.

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  • overcast5348@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you even create an account on ddg? What data do they have on you?

    Not being argumentative, I’m genuinely curious.

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    • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can create an account on DDG.

      Even if you don’t they can probably link your IP to search requests.

      And even if they refuse, some agency could probably install their own software to track users.

      I understand this looks like paranoia but again considering the invasion of privacy the NSA did in the past, it’s not really far fetched.

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      • overcast5348@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks!

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• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They don’t give as good results anymore. I was with them from the beginning when they had that bubble page showing that they don’t trap you in a bubble.

  Now my results show very specific results to my location even when I have it disabled and set to all regions.

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