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I would have thought that the type of person compelled to use DDG, would disable autocomplete.
by matt-attack 6y ago
I would have thought that the type of person compelled to use DDG, would disable autocomplete.
- baddox 6y agoI don’t use DDG. I just followed this HN link, then tried typing some other things in the search bar.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoIt really depends. On the continuum of "I don't care about privacy" to "borderline paranoid", there's certainly a middle ground of "I don't trust Google but do trust DDG to not record every keystroke I send and add it to my profile forever" that would be happy to enable autocomplete if it was going to a search engine with a meaningful privacy stance.
- nitrogen 6y agoIf I remember correctly their autocomplete might use probabilistic data structures to preserve some privacy, so you download a set of random completions rather than just a single completion. But I don't know where I read that or if it was implemented.