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From the link: The CEO sold his previous company's data before founding DDG. His previous company (Names DB) was a surveillance capitalist service designed to
by ced 5y ago
From the link:
The CEO sold his previous company's data before founding DDG. His previous company (Names DB) was a surveillance capitalist service designed to coerce naive users to submit sensitive information about their friends.
Is that a fair statement? Can someone provide more context?
- boomboomsubban 5y agoIt was a failed social network to help you reconnect with old friends. It tried to get you to recruit your friends immediately after registering and had a typical social network license. I'd say that description is intentionally describing it in the worst possible light, but not wholly inaccurate.
- deltree7 5y agoYet, HN is down and ready to suck searx dick because hurr durr privacy. This is HN in a nutshell. Hint: If all you privacy-paranoid people show the exact same behavior, you are an advertiser dream. Sure, you won't be sold shampoo like general population, most advertisement companies know the exact kind of doomer-prepper items to sell if you come via VPN/DDG/whatever convoluted hack/concoction you come up to make your life inconvenient.