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Re:Google – My Activity by truebosko on Thursday May 30, 2019 @11:15AM (#20052060)
What's notable is that when I search though DDG, Google still is able to see and track my search item there. I did not even think about that, but a bit eye opening. (I am using Chrome, afterall)
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Re:Google – My Activity by snowwindwaves on Thursday May 30, 2019 @11:35AM (#20052282)
Do you mean When you search using google through ddg via !g bang operator, not when you search just using DDG (which uses bing apparently)?
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Re:Google – My Activity by truebosko on Thursday May 30, 2019 @12:40PM (#20053051)
Ah yes, it's only when I use the !g bang operator. But if I recall, a selling point of DDG and searching Google via the operator was that lack of track-ability. Of course, again, I am using Chrome so not shocked, just notable.
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Re:Google – My Activity by dredmorbius on Thursday May 30, 2019 @01:29PM (#20053713)
!s or !sp give you SmartPage -- privacy-proxied Google search.

!disconnect -> disconnect search

Sort of. I find direct Google is more comprehensive.

!bangs gives more bang searches:

https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=

Ohers: https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=search

https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/private-search-engines/

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Re:Google – My Activity by amelius on Thursday May 30, 2019 @11:26AM (#20052178)
DDG should warn about that.
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Re:Google – My Activity by rezistik on Thursday May 30, 2019 @11:43AM (#20052339)
Why? Genuinely, if you're using Chrome shouldn't you expect that they can see your browser history?
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Re:Google – My Activity by xvector on Thursday May 30, 2019 @04:08PM (#20055394)
Because browsers should not phone home with private data, and if they do, it should be made obvious.
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