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As usual most of the comments here are "I made the switch and couldn't be happier" and have nothing to do with the actual submission. Therefore I feel obligated
by Kiro 8y ago
As usual most of the comments here are "I made the switch and couldn't be happier" and have nothing to do with the actual submission. Therefore I feel obligated to post my usual rant about DDG just being a wrapper for Bing.
- chappi42 8y agoBing or not. For me important is that it is outside Google's reach. This prevents aggregating search (history) with e.g. gmail, contacts, location etc. Also important is, that DDG now works reasonably good in most cases.
- Kiro 8y agoThank you. I support that. What I don't support is people saying it's a false claim when DDG is completely transparent about it themselves.
- FabHK 8y agoDoes Bing offer the same privacy advantages (no tracking, no history based ads, etc.)? EDIT to add: I think nobody disputes or cares that most results come from (or equal) Bing results, as long as they're good enough.
- johnmarcus 8y agoDDG basically acts as a vpn proxy. Bing sees all the traffic as from DDG the same, they can't differentiate the individual requesters. Assuming DDG does what it says it does anyway.
- FabHK 8y agoRight, so that's a valuable service in itself, as far as I'm concerned.
- puzzle 8y agoThe most peculiar thing about building on top of Bing's index, when it comes to privacy, is that Bing itself was caught looking at the queries and clicks of Google users during the "hiybbprqag" affaire. It was quite telling that Microsoft didn't turn that off even after getting outed.