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DuckDuckGo Switches from Fastmail to Outlook
- basicplus2 7y agoWe now know ahead of time who they are going to sell out to?
- drannex 7y agoI don't believe so. Good mail servers are harder to manage and upkeep (especially with spam guards) at scale. Enterprise Microsoft is probably the most forward-privacy you can get since government agencies, high level corporations, and more all use this. They have to have high regards to privacy and the some of the greatest in security metrics.
- throwGuardian 7y agoIs Outlook end to end encrypted? DDG has to "trust" that Microsoft won't read their strategic emails, given that Bing is much more of a direct and in-range competitor than Google is
- rahuldottech 7y agoBing isn't really a competitor to DDG. The vast majority of (English) DDG search results come from Bing.
- bitpush 7y agoRan `dig duckduckgo.com MX` on the terminal and got this output # dig duckduckgo.com MX ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54304 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;duckduckgo.com. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: duckduckgo.com. 257 IN MX 0 duckduckgo-com.mail.protection.outlook.com. ;; Query time: 802 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Mon Oct XX XX:XX:XX XX 2019 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98