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They are privacy focused in as much as they don't track you themselves, they just hand you off to Microsoft to be tracked. https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/dd

They are privacy focused in as much as they don't track you themselves, they just hand you off to Microsoft to be tracked. https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/ddg-microsoft-tracking-blocking-limit/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/ddg-microsoft-tracking-blo... Their founder is also on record as "down ranking misinformation", which is not a judgment call I want my search engine making. Relevance and truth are two different things.

barbazoo 4y ago
> Their founder is also on record as "down ranking misinformation" https://mashable.com/article/duckduckgo-search-engine-russian-disinformation https://mashable.com/article/duckduckgo-search-engine-russia...
- Karunamon 4y ago
  Also here, straight from the horse's mouth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33247856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33247856 The sketchy and indirect way they engage with this criticism put me off of ever trusting DDG.
  - danjoredd 4y ago
    If you are into self-hosting, I hear Searx is pretty good. Been thinking on setting that up on my personal server so I can just stop relying on companies
  - barbazoo 4y ago
    Thanks!