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Good riddance. "Privacy-oriented" is the most egregious tagline I've ever seen from a company like Cliqz. Their real motus operandi was spying on users for targ

• dontbenebby 7y ago
  Wow, I came in to joke we know DuckDuckGo must be doing well if it's killing competitors but sheesh. It amazes me so many companies (not just privacy oriented) don't think the ground truth of having a useful product which treats users with respect is necessary in order to be successful.
• smnthermes 7y ago
  It's the greatest shame in the Firefox history.
• yellowapple 7y ago
  Agreed 100%. The article presents a whitewashed rose-tinted picture of Cliqz that's very different from reality, and it's alarming that its (former) employees continue to propagate that reality distortion even beyond the existence of Cliqz itself. The browser and search engine were a front for the "offers", plain and simple. The whole premise was Orwellian to its core; war was peace, freedom was slavery, ignorance was strength, and tracking was privacy. I sympathize with the newly-displaced employees facing the grim prospects of finding work in a fractured labor market. Hopefully they'll all have a chance to put their skills toward more honest ventures.