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Right. Have you tried the private mode (top right dropdown)? Like DDG we proxy everything in that mode. It's a bit slower so we haven't done it in default mode
by richardsocher 5y ago
Right.
Have you tried the private mode (top right dropdown)?
Like DDG we proxy everything in that mode. It's a bit slower so we haven't done it in default mode yet.
- TekMol 5y agoIt is getting absurd. Having "private" in your marketing front and center and at the same time defaulting to sending your users data out to all kind of companies. I would not have said anything if you did not post with "private" and "build for devs" in the title. I have no opinion on your project. I only know it is not private and not build for devs. This is just marketing speak and I don't like to see that on my favorite news aggregator. By the way, have you tried the "private mode"? Even when I enable it, I still see requests to third parties. If I should take a guess why, I would say because you use external javascript. And even when you proxy that, it can still access external hosts directly. Or your own javascript does not get sanitized correctly. Since JS is turing complete, there can never be a guarantee that your proxy mechanism sanitizes everything. For example, every time I saw Etsy in the results, my browser made direct requests to Google.
- jjulius 5y agoGoddamn, thank you for pointing that out. I knew I was right to not trust him regarding privacy [1], I just didn't expect to see something like this backing that up so quickly lol. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29170624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29170624
- 3np 5y agoI'd listen to TekMol's feedback and made "private mode" default. Marketing privacy while making the client send traceable queries to third parties severely break user expectations. There should be no reason why all required queries aren't going to first-party servers.