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I'm not sold that are a competitor. I'm also not sold on the privacy niche that they are trying to fill. Without funding, they will have to rely on advertising

by korzun 12y ago

I'm not sold that are a competitor. I'm also not sold on the privacy niche that they are trying to fill. Without funding, they will have to rely on advertising. It's fact. I doubt companies with serious marketing budgets will use their platform. Look at AppNexus for example. Pretty advanced technology. You, as an advertiser would be a total idiot to spend the money on a 'static' ad placement within DDG. Statistics matter. If this was 1990, maybe. Not in todays world. People don't just throw money at stuff like this. Now from privacy angle. Has anybody actually verified their claims? Or do we just take their word for it? Now, they offer Chrome extension and serve advertising. Both of those things leak data. So slowly, they are starting to have those 'exceptions'. And do you really think they will be able to tell FBI 'We don't track stuff sorry guys!' when FBI really needs something from them? They will either be shut down or forced to log data once they get any useful traction. That's the way it works. I bet that once they reach that point, they will pivot as a 'regular' search engine or look for a buyer (re: Google). Don't worry, you will get a warm notice of how they fought for your privacy but at the end they had no choice.

lxle 12y ago
Holy defeatest attitude. Your not sold? LOL no your being sold ever single day. Those things leak data? Find some proof besides your own mind. Talk about stockholm syndrome.
- korzun 12y ago
  > Find some proof besides your own mind Proof of what? Referral tracking?
  - lxle 12y ago
    The DuckDuckGo extension is to provide duckduckgo searches using chrome, DDG's ads on 'their' site doesn't track you while your browsing the search results or when you click, however once you reach the page of the link you click on, then and only then are you probably catalogued and or recorded. But thats the independent site you visited not DDG. DDG can't force the websites you visit that you found using their service to not record or track you once you get there. In otherwords, ads can and do track, but the ads displayed on DDG do not... "We do not use any third parties to do the code insertion, and we do not work with any sites that share personally identifiable information (e.g. name, address, etc.) via their affiliate programs. This means that no information is shared from DuckDuckGo to the sites, and the only information that is collected from this process is product information, which is not tied to any particular user and which we do not save or store on our end. It is completely analogous to the search result case from the previous paragraph--we can see anonymous product info such that we cannot tie them to any particular person (or even tie multiple purchases together). This whole affiliate process is an attempt to keep advertising to a minimal level on DuckDuckGo."

by korzun 12y ago

lxle 12y ago

Holy defeatest attitude. Your not sold? LOL no your being sold ever single day. Those things leak data? Find some proof besides your own mind. Talk about stockholm syndrome.

korzun 12y ago
> Find some proof besides your own mind Proof of what? Referral tracking?
- lxle 12y ago
  The DuckDuckGo extension is to provide duckduckgo searches using chrome, DDG's ads on 'their' site doesn't track you while your browsing the search results or when you click, however once you reach the page of the link you click on, then and only then are you probably catalogued and or recorded. But thats the independent site you visited not DDG. DDG can't force the websites you visit that you found using their service to not record or track you once you get there. In otherwords, ads can and do track, but the ads displayed on DDG do not... "We do not use any third parties to do the code insertion, and we do not work with any sites that share personally identifiable information (e.g. name, address, etc.) via their affiliate programs. This means that no information is shared from DuckDuckGo to the sites, and the only information that is collected from this process is product information, which is not tied to any particular user and which we do not save or store on our end. It is completely analogous to the search result case from the previous paragraph--we can see anonymous product info such that we cannot tie them to any particular person (or even tie multiple purchases together). This whole affiliate process is an attempt to keep advertising to a minimal level on DuckDuckGo."