Why You Should Be Using a Private Search Engine

Re:Why You Should Be Using a Private Search Engine by morinted on Friday January 05, 2018 @04:49PM (#16082004)

The post is titled "why you should be using a private search engine" and yet there's only a paragraph at the end that's subtitled:

    Why You Should Use Private Search Engines?

Here's the entirety of that section:

    The truth is, people know that search engines are
    tracking them. Most websites have privacy policies
    which clearly state that they use cookies and other
    means of tracking users. Any in many cases, when we
    are asked to give apps, websites, or products
    permission to track us, we blindly agree. This may
    seem acceptable at first, but it’s problematic if that
    same tracker is following you two years later, when
    you’ve forgotten about it.

    Your search engine should be optimized for searching
    the internet, not tracking you once you’ve left. Your
    Google information can be used against you in legal
    cases, even in civil cases like divorces.

So if I understand correctly:

1. You might forget about trackers you've accepted.

2. Your search history can be used against you in the court of law.

They couldn't come up with anything better for this ad?

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Re:Why You Should Be Using a Private Search Engine by LV-426 on Friday January 05, 2018 @05:31PM (#16082343)

Pretty funny how anti-tracking they are, in their daily submissions to HN, considering the number of resources from external sites - Google, Facebook, Medium, Twitter, Linkedin, etc - their page loads.

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