Update: DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg took to Twitter on Saturday, calling our headline “quite misleading” since “this isn’t about our search engine and we actually restrict Microsoft scripts in our browsers, including blocking their 3rd party cookies.”
@yeggReplying to @zerohedge
FYI — this is a quite misleading headline since this isn’t about our search engine and we actually restrict Microsoft scripts in our browsers, including blocking their 3rd party cookies. For full context, I left detailed explanation on reddit: https://reddit.com/r/technology/c
Weinberg links to a Reddit thread he created on Wednesday when the tracking controversy broke. In it, he explains: “this article is not about our search engine, but about our browsers,” adding that “When most other browsers on the market talk about tracking protection they are usually referring to 3rd-party cookie protection and fingerprinting protection, and our browsers impose these same restrictions on all third-party tracking scripts, including those from Microsoft.”
And while Redditors appeared sympathetic in the replies, users in the more technically oriented YCombinator Hacker News forum weren’t buying it.
The top response refutes Weinberg’s claim that “this is not about search,” explaining; “Your competitors in the privacy-centric browser space don’t have this restriction because they’re not search engines acquiring the majority of their data from an entity with a conflicting interest.”
Another user replied: “The thread by the security engineer shows that the scripts are communicating back to the servers. That means your multi-pronged protection has failed, unless you’ve suddenly discovered a way for browsers to block IP addresses from being sent by scripts (and since they can be extracted from the request itself that doesn’t seem likely).” more here
microflaccid goes limp again!!!
Every new player who breaks into the market to protect privacy and free speech eventually gets turned. The money is just too good to not knuckle under to the global fascist cabal. In a few years, Rumble and Substack will be just as fucked up.
Not being a tech geek, I don’t understand all the jargon. But I used Duck Duck Go as a search engine, and what do you know…when I search for something on DDG, it miraculously appears later when I am on YouTube.
ddg, keep skng gro-bama dk & swallowing – or is it fellating-biden-inc., anal-tracking-force, communists-in-action, etc.?
thought it was micro-shaft, unlike de chicongo “mayor”
I switched to resulthunter.com a couple months ago.
But their policy sums it up pretty well, ” But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.”
If you use the internet, have a phone, and a card, they still see what your doing.
Just trying to delay my trip to the reeducation camps.
Always watching, we know every search you do, we know your accounts, we know what you do on social media. Your tracked, scored & sold just like a 3 dollar whore.
can any of you dicksuckers speak/write in comprehensible English?
On top of this latest fiasco, DDG is still censoring and ranking content. DDG Browser or DDG search engine, are products that no one should be using even though they “respect” privacy.
Anonymous
If you every want to find the true source of all your troubles/problems, check the mirror.
He blew it
re-run: can any of you ceo/corporate dicksuckers speak/write in comprehensible English?
The ONLY good thing about Duckduckgo is that they don’t appear to politically censor search results, as Google does – aggressively.
Anonypuss, just give the fuck up, you blew it! Don’t come back unless you arn’t drinkin, tommorrow’s another day! Enjoy your drunken stupor.
For now, Brave search is the most usable of the still-privacy-minded search engines.
https://search.brave.com/
Pure bs by WHINE-BURGER who has scrubbed and eliminated a very large portion of substantive searches, especially conservative types. Saw it myself more than several times, then dumped the hypocritical thing for searchdotbravedotcom which is still in beta mode.