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Has this check for consent recently become more aggressive? I remember being able to do a couple of searches before seeing it pop up. Now I see it as soon as I
by noisem4ker 6y ago
Has this check for consent recently become more aggressive? I remember being able to do a couple of searches before seeing it pop up. Now I see it as soon as I open a private tab.
- Nextgrid 6y agoIt's probably an A/B test to see how many people will take this shit or how they can tweak it to coerce more people into accepting. I've started just copying the URL and closing the tab, opening new one, pasting the URL, etc in a loop until I get a page without this crap. This works but sometimes requires a dozen of tries. It does a great job of encouraging me to stay on DDG and not even bother checking Google results. In the long term I'm waiting for a EU privacy regulator to look into this (as this is not compliant with the GDPR, for reasons I explained in another comment here) or for an alternative frontend to be built (like a self-hosted Startpage).
- Doctor_Fegg 6y agoIt wouldn't amaze me if it's been implemented specifically to discourage people from using private tabs to search.