https://mobile.twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318
I guess three years was a good run: https://mobile.twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1043859278774370305
They very clearly track you either not at all, or at least in far fewer ways than Google, an improvement either way. Google doesn’t sell your data (except they actually do) because they’re also the ad agency which is what most companies find the info is useful for.
While it’s all a grey area on how useful it is, I think it’s actively harmful to claim there’s no difference here. It does make a meaningful difference.
Moving away from Google to DDG is a serious blow to online ads and ad effectiveness, and does support pro-privacy orgs. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but DDG is a step up. On top of that, I find DDG to be much better than Google anyway. Though I’m not a loyal fan by any means and would love a totally open and/or uncensored search engine even more.
Google have also been subpeonad many times for all sorts of info, it’s very, very common. Using a company that doesn’t store that info in the first place, again, makes a difference.
Lol their claim in the GitHub link you posted is so sus. How is it “hard to locate favicons”. It’s literally one of the easiest things to do. The HTML <head> element contains a reference to it, and on most sites it’s also at “/favicon.ico”. And “different content types” is like one of the main things the web is supposed to be for. HTTP is built around being able to serve multiple content types! So so so sleazy.
