Heard some sketchy stuff about duckduckgo recently, found out about start page.many users?

  • LWD@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You are thinking of a browser app, not the search engine. And by “allowing”, you mean “did not add to the blacklist of things to block when using their browser”. And they rectified this pretty quickly, so there’s a not insubstantial chance it was just an accident.

    Blacklists are going to be imperfect by definition, if uBlock Origin misses a tracker I’m not going to say it’s “allowing” the site to track me

    • §ɦṛɛɗɗịɛ ßịⱺ𝔩ⱺɠịᵴŧ@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Being an accident would be news to me. Since it sources Bing for results, you’d think Microsofts trackers would be a focal point of their privacy approach. Sleeping on trackers known to be present isn’t a good look either way.