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At the end of the article the author insinuates that the Bing ad partnership might lend itself to tracking users or otherwise making the service less secure and
by hawkharris 13y ago
At the end of the article the author insinuates that the Bing ad partnership might lend itself to tracking users or otherwise making the service less secure and anonymous. Is that possible?
- JimJames 13y agoIIRC it depends how the ads are routed. The ads could be piped through duckduckgo so Bing only receives searches to return contextual ads for but has no knowledge of the IPs for each search. Duckduckgo then embeds the ads in the search page and returns it to the searcher, then forgets their IP. On the other hand if there's just a bit of javascript on the search page that says "Tell bing to put ads on this page using the search bar text" then bing would be able to link the search to an IP and you lose your privacy.
- lgray 13y agoI was looking into this recently, and I found this, on the FAQ: "Ads cannot be retrieved from the developer directly but instead through the end user's browser. Calling for the Ads from a server will lead to detection and termination of the customer." http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/boss_api_guide/sb_sponads_faqs.html http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/boss_api_guide/sb_spo...
- Matt_Cutts 13y agoIn the past I believe I've seen search ad links on DDG that included my IP address in the URL.
- throwaway10001 13y agoNice, unsupported low blow to a competitor. Keep looking maybe you'll "find" some with your credit card info and home address.