While we’ve been busily improving our privacy protection ducklings — like DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser (for iOS/Android) and DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials (for Firefox/Chrome) — we haven’t been neglecting our first born — DuckDuckGo Private Search! In fact, quite the opposite — we’ve made several improvements recently that we’re excited to share with you. They should make your searching not only more effective, but also a more pleasant experience, and still of course with our same strict commitment to privacy: no personal information is associated with your searches, such that you have no search history and therefore no search profiling or ads following you around based on your searches.
Some solid improvements all around, but nothing earth-shattering.
Well, hopefully those guys are doing a good job (or decent enough!), as my working setup is now Firefox ESR with DDG as search engine.
Just listened to https://samharris.org/podcasts/152-trouble-facebook/ and it makes me want to run a million miles form Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, in that order, and into the arms of the “evil” Apple. And off course to Duck Duck Go too. And all is forgiven RMS. It seems that GMail, Google Maps, Alexa and “Log on with Facebook” were all designed to gather metadata., not be great free services. Less clear about how Microsoft is a bad actor in the data exploitation scene. The solution presented is regulation. The prediction is that the companies and services will remain but just less profits. So a stock market melt down, massive recession, but we all are not tracked by our devices all the time. So nobody will know where I am and I will have no money…. Yeaaahhhh!! …. I think … :-O
I seriously would not mind a search history, as long as it’s encrypted, and not able to be used for sed search profiling or ad targeting.
The solution is to own and manage your own digital avatar rather then leaving it to the folks who now own your various digital identities. That would be separation of service and identity. Then you can keep private or sell yourself as you see fit. And service providers might give you a choice of doing that or paying for service. It would be a fair solution.