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Icons are proxied by DDG, so no data leaking there. Bing's API requires you provide them with an IP address and results are personalized to that address. Becau

by dgut 5y ago

Icons are proxied by DDG, so no data leaking there. Bing's API requires you provide them with an IP address and results are personalized to that address. Because DDG shows the same results to everybody, I assume they have a special deal with DDG and no PII is being sent to Bing. Disclaimer: I run https://okeano.com https://okeano.com, a private search engine.

Terry_Roll 5y ago
>Icons are proxied by DDG, so no data leaking there. Not according to the console view (F12) for images in the browser. You can also verify this with your firewall and dns lookups. >Disclaimer: I run https://okeano.com https://okeano.com, a private search engine. Also uses bing.net, mm.bing.net for safe search and explicit.bing.net for not safe search, but with a GUID linked to every image it pulls in, so there is still traceability and thus accountability, ergo its not private. https://external.okeano.com/1e08822804ae14da3a8841c6e0b7cbf2279d773d?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.cm1ls1zg5q0Sai7b_9jkEQHaJ4%26pid%3DApi https://external.okeano.com/1e08822804ae14da3a8841c6e0b7cbf2... I've also noticed there are times when cookies are not cleared on exit with some websites despite browser settings being set to clear cookies on exit. Theres alot more surveillance going on under the hood in the chromium browsers than meets the eye. Anyway it doesnt matter this thread has been bunked off the first page so sheeple wont wake up.
- dgut 5y ago
  > Not according to the console view (F12) for images in the browser. You can also verify this with your firewall and dns lookups. Are you talking about the DDG browser? On the website, icos and other external content is proxied. > Also uses bing.net, mm.bing.net for safe search and explicit.bing.net for not safe search, but with a GUID linked to every image it pulls in, so there is still traceability and thus accountability, ergo its not private. We (Okeano) don't send any PII to Bing.
  - Terry_Roll 5y ago
    >Are you talking about the DDG browser? On the website, icos and other external content is proxied. In MS Edge they appear as separate external links pulled in to the webpage. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=some+query https://duckduckgo.com/?q=some+query Press F12 Application Tab Frames, Expand Images and you can see the icons there. >We (Okeano) don't send any PII to Bing. What do you mean by PII? On its own its a jigsaw piece, with other jigsaw pieces you can build a picture. This is where the law, the words, are vague and open to interpretation. Its possible to assemble jigsaw pieces using metadata.
    - duckmysick 5y ago
      I just checked and they all go through either external-content.duckduckgo.com or duckduckgo.com For example, the Hacker News favicon loads from https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/news.ycombinator.com.ico https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/news.ycombinator... Maybe I'm misunderstanding something. How would you rather have the favicons (or any images) displayed? Not at all?

by dgut 5y ago

Terry_Roll 5y ago

>Icons are proxied by DDG, so no data leaking there. Not according to the console view (F12) for images in the browser. You can also verify this with your firewall and dns lookups. >Disclaimer: I run https://okeano.com https://okeano.com, a private search engine. Also uses bing.net, mm.bing.net for safe search and explicit.bing.net for not safe search, but with a GUID linked to every image it pulls in, so there is still traceability and thus accountability, ergo its not private. https://external.okeano.com/1e08822804ae14da3a8841c6e0b7cbf2279d773d?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.cm1ls1zg5q0Sai7b_9jkEQHaJ4%26pid%3DApi https://external.okeano.com/1e08822804ae14da3a8841c6e0b7cbf2... I've also noticed there are times when cookies are not cleared on exit with some websites despite browser settings being set to clear cookies on exit. Theres alot more surveillance going on under the hood in the chromium browsers than meets the eye. Anyway it doesnt matter this thread has been bunked off the first page so sheeple wont wake up.

dgut 5y ago
> Not according to the console view (F12) for images in the browser. You can also verify this with your firewall and dns lookups. Are you talking about the DDG browser? On the website, icos and other external content is proxied. > Also uses bing.net, mm.bing.net for safe search and explicit.bing.net for not safe search, but with a GUID linked to every image it pulls in, so there is still traceability and thus accountability, ergo its not private. We (Okeano) don't send any PII to Bing.
- Terry_Roll 5y ago
  >Are you talking about the DDG browser? On the website, icos and other external content is proxied. In MS Edge they appear as separate external links pulled in to the webpage. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=some+query https://duckduckgo.com/?q=some+query Press F12 Application Tab Frames, Expand Images and you can see the icons there. >We (Okeano) don't send any PII to Bing. What do you mean by PII? On its own its a jigsaw piece, with other jigsaw pieces you can build a picture. This is where the law, the words, are vague and open to interpretation. Its possible to assemble jigsaw pieces using metadata.
  - duckmysick 5y ago
    I just checked and they all go through either external-content.duckduckgo.com or duckduckgo.com For example, the Hacker News favicon loads from https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/news.ycombinator.com.ico https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/news.ycombinator... Maybe I'm misunderstanding something. How would you rather have the favicons (or any images) displayed? Not at all?