DDG helps Yahoo profit by patronizing Yahoo’s API for search results, and also through advertising.
DDG is partnered with Yahoo (aka Oath plus Verizon and AOL by extension).DDG hires Microsoft for email service: torsocks dig mx +tcp | grep -E '^\w' => “….com”.Microsoft paid $195k to fight privacy in CA.Microsoft finances AnyVision to equip the Israeli military with facial recognition to be used against the Palestinians who they oppress.Microsoft Office products violate the GDPR (the Dutch government discovered numerous violations).DDG feeds privacy-abuser Microsoft by patronizing the Bing API for search results and uses Outlook email service.Amazon runs sweat shops, invests in climate denial, etc… the list of non-privacy related harms is too long to list here.Amazon paid $195k to fight privacy in CA.Amazon uses Ring and Alexa to surveil neighborhoods and the inside of homes.Amazon is making an astronomical investment in facial recognition which will destroy physical travel privacy.DDG patronizes privacy-abuser Amazon, using AWS for hosting.Harmful Partnerships with Adversaries of Privacy Seekers:.DDG T-shirts are sold using a CloudFlare site, thus surreptitiously sharing all order information (name, address, credit card, etc) with CloudFlare despite their statement at the bottom of the page saying “DuckDuckGo is an Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.” (2019).
DDG is complying with the “celebrity threesome injunction”.Some people replace Google with DDG in order to avoid censorship. DDG blacklisted Framabee, a search engine for the highly respected consortium.When clicking an ad on the DDG results page, all data available in your session is sent to the advertiser, which is why the Epic browser project refuses to set DDG as the default browser.DDG is accused of fingerprinting users’ browsers.Notice that the previous query is being transmitted with the new query to link the queries together) Mouseover the traffic rows and see that your highlighted text, operating system, and other details relating to geolocation are sent to DDG. (to verify this, simply hit F12 in your browser and select the “network” tab. DDG is currently collecting users’ operating systems and everything they highlight in the search results.DDG’s app sends every URL you visit to DDG servers.DDG was caught violating its own privacy policy by issuing tracker cookies.Clearly he doesn’t value privacy – he values perception of privacy. Privacy is Weinberg’s means (not ends) in that endeavor. As a privacy abuser during the conception of DDG (Names Database), Weinberg sought to become a big-name legacy. Weinberg’s motivation for creating DDG was not actually to “spread privacy” it was to create something big, something that would compete with big players.DDG’s founder (Gabriel Weinberg) has a history of privacy abuse, starting with his founding of Names DB, a surveillance capitalist service designed to coerce naive users to submit sensitive information about their friends.Nefarious History of DDG founder & CEO:.TThere are substantial privacy and civil liberty issues with DuckDuckGo. Summary: DuckDuckGo is another privacy abuser in disguise the above forum thread enumerates key reasons Roy SchestowitzĬredit to Lemmy for the detailed yet very concise list Posted in Deception, Microsoft, Search at 10:36 am by Dr. 07.02.20 Gemini version available ♊︎ Why People Should Never Ever Use DuckDuckGo