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I don't have any particular trust in them. However, they've staked their entire business model on privacy. That would be foolish if their intent is to sell use
by esperent 6y ago
I don't have any particular trust in them. However, they've staked their entire business model on privacy. That would be foolish if their intent is to sell user info, because doing that is unlikely to stay private for long.
- ssorallen 6y agoTheir entire business model is [selling advertisements][0], same as Google. [0]: https://help.duckduckgo.com/company/advertising-and-affiliates/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/company/advertising-and-affiliat...
- pbronez 6y agoDDG is using a very old version of Google’s business model: they serve ads based on your search string. That’s it. No search history mining. No email reading. No broadly deployed analytics snippets and browser logins to reconstruct your whole browsing history. I’m already sending my search query to DDG for them to give me search results. They don’t ask for any additional data. They just allow advertisers to bid on the first few results for a particular topic. I’m ok with that.
- Dahoon 6y agoExactly like Startpage.com that then became part of a datamining/harvesting business.