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

They block the tracking.

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- andthenthreemore@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I'm guessing they have quite a bit more users and thus can negotiate better.
    
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- Vincent@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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    Vincent@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What does "blocked on the search engine" mean?
    
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mouse@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
According to them DuckDuckGo largely sources Bing, however they also have their own crawler called DuckDuckBot.

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