Comment on Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere

Luft@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Maeve@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Which defaults to Bing, to whom ddg sends all your queries. I use ddg.

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  • DigitalPaperTrail@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    from what I understand, only the search terms themselves, separate from all info from the specific user's hardware that inputted them, are aggregated for analytics, so it's not like it's straight using bing directly

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    • Maeve@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      https://cyberguy.com/privacy/duckduckgo-privacy-browser-caught-sending-tracking-data-to-microsoft/

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      • DigitalPaperTrail@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-duckduckgo-gates-track-idUSL1N3792HE

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