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I felt that it was time to try to switch to DDG, so I just went to the duckduckgo website, and it proposes to "add it to chrome". It leads to a chrome extensio
by on_and_off 7y ago
I felt that it was time to try to switch to DDG, so I just went to the duckduckgo website, and it proposes to "add it to chrome".
It leads to a chrome extension page asking me to give complete read access to what pages I visit to the DDG extension.
Naive question : how can I know what DDG will do with that data ? (And yes I realize that this question applies to any search engine or extension)
- pferde 7y agoYou made a slight logical leap there - how do you know the extension will even send any of your data to DDG for them to do something with?
- on_and_off 7y agothe extension asks for the permission to access all that data.
- pferde 7y agoYes, to be able to work with them locally, within your browser.
- on_and_off 7y agowhat prevents the extension from sending that data ?
- pferde 7y agoNothing, but you can check if it does that in its source code. Did you, or did you simply assume that it does?
- on_and_off 7y agoSince I don't believe I can block extension from updating, that's not going to be helpful.
- pvarangot 7y agoGoogle already knows the pages you visit, worst case if you give them to DDG you are making the playing field even.
- on_and_off 7y agoWell the worst case is exactly what I would like to avoid. Otherwise, what's the point ?
- mackrevinack 7y agoyou don't really need that. just add ddg in your browser settings. the extension shows you a rating for each site and blocks some stuff but if you are using other extensions like ublock origin, https everywhere etc then you don't really need it
- on_and_off 7y agoJust did that. I am confused as of why they would push the extension everywhere instead of just asking people to add ddg as the search engine ? Just from a privacy stand point, extensions with complete access freak me out.