Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by morganvachon on Friday June 01, 2018 @06:08PM (#17210887)

If you want to get Google search results and not give them any personal info or create a search bubble, try startpage.com or ixquick.com (same company). They have built a privacy-focused search engine that rides on Google's results. I'm not affiliated, I just enjoy using it.

If you don't trust Startpage you can try DuckDuckGo with a !g modifier, it will search Google (mostly) anonymously for you.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by sandov on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:56PM (#17211603)

As far as I understand, the !g modifier doesn't search anonymously for you, it just redirects you to the google results page. It's useful when you know that ddg won't give you a result as good as google.

You can also use the !sp flag, that redirects you to the startpage result page, without passing through google at any time, so that's what you should use instead of !g.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by morganvachon on Friday June 01, 2018 @08:57PM (#17211903)

Thanks for that, I rarely use DDG but I always assumed they sanitized the Google results.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by pmontra on Friday June 01, 2018 @06:59PM (#17211233)

You can use Google without logging in and with one of those browser addons that delete cookies when leaving a site.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by morganvachon on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:34PM (#17211463)

They still create a search bubble based on your IP address and browser fingerprinting.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by cube2222 on Saturday June 02, 2018 @06:05AM (#17213838)

Well not with GDPR, no.

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