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While I am supportive of their business model, and search functionality, I find it off-putting the way they speak of privacy but then use maps provided by a GAF
by politelemon 6y ago
While I am supportive of their business model, and search functionality, I find it off-putting the way they speak of privacy but then use maps provided by a GAFAM which are ultimately profit oriented and can _not_ be trusted to safeguard privacy regardless of their marketing. OSM would be a great choice here. I'll even dare to speculate that they were financially incentivized to make their choice in the face of a superior and actually privacy-oriented choice.
- naibafo 6y agoYou can use different Map backends for the map functionality, OSM amongst them
- newsch 6y agoIs there a way to do this for the maps search? I only see an option to change the directions provider.
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- theferalrobot 6y ago> I find it off-putting the way they speak of privacy but then use maps provided by a GAFAM which are ultimately profit oriented and can _not_ be trusted DuckDuckGo itself is profit oriented, as is ProtonMail and a ton of other privacy first companies. Those aren’t mutually exclusive and I don’t think most people operate with that level of distrust. I think the problem people have with Google is that their business model itself (targeted advertising) isn’t currently compatible with privacy.