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As a fan of DDG (I use it daily), I had no idea there was this much risk -- I was surprised enough to find out they offloaded search to Bing a while ago (but al
by hardwaresofton 7y ago
As a fan of DDG (I use it daily), I had no idea there was this much risk -- I was surprised enough to find out they offloaded search to Bing a while ago (but also I don't blame them, it's probably pretty hard).
Even with these hangups, I still think any near-viable option to Google should exist.
[EDIT] - just realized it's only been 20 minutes (not a day) -- looking forward to DDG's response
- rvnx 7y agoThere is so much to say. In practice, DDG revenues depends on tracking visitors. DDG asks third-parties to track (Yahoo/Bing ads), so if someone asks "do you track? NO! WE DON'T". They don't need to create a user profile, the keyword based ads pay enough. This is the catch, "we don't track, but we ask our partners to do it for us". The same with Amazon affiliate revenue. Did you know that DuckDuckGo had access to the whole history of items bought through their affiliate link ? It's a detailed item list, like "3 x Happy Belly Dried Mango, 500 g" Every, single, item. No tracking (◠ ‿ ◠)