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Privacy Statements are the tech equivalent of calling food organic. You need a reputable third party to audit your practices. Or your software needs to be open

Privacy Statements are the tech equivalent of calling food organic. You need a reputable third party to audit your practices. Or your software needs to be open source so anyone can see what you're doing. I'll be switching from using DDG because of this. I don't trust Yahoo, and I barely trust DDG.

dcgoss 10y ago
Ironically, your name is organic_tech34. For the record, the term "organic" is regulated by the USDA.
- Zezima 10y ago
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- mathgeek 10y ago
  > the term "organic" is regulated by the USDA. I think the point the previous poster was making is that even though it's regulated, there are so many black boxes that it's rather easy to sneak in a violation and no one notices (whether the company is doing it or it's accidental). Just look at how many organic product recalls happen in any given year due to various causes.
  - dcgoss 10y ago
    Ok, that makes sense.
chroma 10y ago
You seem to have very high standards for privacy. So I'm curious: If DDG doesn't pass muster, what search engine will you be switching to?
yclept 10y ago
What are you switching to? As far as I know ddg and yahoo are basically just bing already. So what is an alternative you are comfortable with?
- nathcd 10y ago
  Searx is pretty cool: > A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine [0]https://searx.me/ https://searx.me/ [1]https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances [2]https://github.com/asciimoo/searx https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
ScroogeMcDoug 10y ago
Can just use Tor for it. DDG still maintains a .onion, and I don't think I've ever gotten a captcha trying to search Bing via Tor. If you care about privacy enough to stop using a specific service entirely over assumptions, then I don't see how you could ever outright trust a service to respect their stated privacy policy anyways.

dcgoss 10y ago

Ironically, your name is organic_tech34. For the record, the term "organic" is regulated by the USDA.

Zezima 10y ago
thatsthejoke.jpg
mathgeek 10y ago
> the term "organic" is regulated by the USDA. I think the point the previous poster was making is that even though it's regulated, there are so many black boxes that it's rather easy to sneak in a violation and no one notices (whether the company is doing it or it's accidental). Just look at how many organic product recalls happen in any given year due to various causes.
- dcgoss 10y ago
  Ok, that makes sense.

chroma 10y ago

You seem to have very high standards for privacy. So I'm curious: If DDG doesn't pass muster, what search engine will you be switching to?

yclept 10y ago

What are you switching to? As far as I know ddg and yahoo are basically just bing already. So what is an alternative you are comfortable with?

nathcd 10y ago
Searx is pretty cool: > A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine [0]https://searx.me/ https://searx.me/ [1]https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances [2]https://github.com/asciimoo/searx https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

ScroogeMcDoug 10y ago

Can just use Tor for it. DDG still maintains a .onion, and I don't think I've ever gotten a captcha trying to search Bing via Tor. If you care about privacy enough to stop using a specific service entirely over assumptions, then I don't see how you could ever outright trust a service to respect their stated privacy policy anyways.