> "I trust that Weinberg & co are immune to that kind of pressure" or that their primary motives are altruistic in nature and will always stay such. No, not at

> "I trust that Weinberg & co are immune to that kind of pressure" or that their primary motives are altruistic in nature and will always stay such. No, not at all. I trust that right now Weinberg & co are less likely to be actively caving to that pressure or actively exploiting my information. Trust is always a moving target, but right now I know that Google logs literally everything I click on associated to an IP address, and uses that for targeted ads. As far as I know, Startpage doesn't currently do that, though I expect them to get more aggressive about data in the future. DuckDuckGo (most likely) also doesn't do that, and I expect it to take them some time and have additional warning signs before they start doing it. The link wrapping is a good example of something measurable that matters at this moment. You can use Startpage without Javascript and with a few browser-level features toggled and be pretty certain that the actual link you click on will be impossible for them to log. With Google search, today, there's no way to do that.