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Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard... by epi0Bauqu on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @10:29PM (#2122517)
Just the current search, but the problem is millions of pages run third-party ads, and most are run by very few networks. These ad networks can aggregate the terms and then they have previous searches as well.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard... by scrrr on Thursday January 20, 2011 @03:23AM (#2123072)
Doesn't Incognito browsing, like present in Chrome, remedy all these worries?
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Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard... by mattmanser on Thursday January 20, 2011 @07:46AM (#2123440)
People find ways around it, for example for a while Flash didn't respect incognito so ad networks just used their cookies instead (I think at one point html5 storage was being used too, but could be wrong).

There's been various HN posts about how people circumvent browser privacy settings to track you across websites and even tricks such as generating an almost unique key by hashing together browser, fonts installed, IP address, etc.. I'm not sure of the current state of play in that war though.

I guess if you really don't want people to track private searches with your accounts, use a whole other browser where you're not logged into Google in incognito mode.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard... by crocowhile on Thursday January 20, 2011 @04:32AM (#2123163)
not if you are logged in using your google account
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Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard... by dauphin on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @11:27PM (#2122647)
Pedophilia is illegal in most countries, I'd be happy if ad networks gather data about your interest on young boys and pass it to the feds! Beasts!

Edit: judging by the downvotes, I guess a good bunch of hackers like to live in atrocity!

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Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard... by endtime on Thursday January 20, 2011 @12:13AM (#2122745)
I think the downvotes are because you're missing the point so hard that they're assuming you must be trolling.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard... by xentronium on Thursday January 20, 2011 @05:45AM (#2123255)
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security (via Ben Franklin)
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Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard... by Travis on Thursday January 20, 2011 @03:03PM (#2125061)
You got the oft-excluded part of the quote right -- temporary security -- but the actual quote is, "he who would trade Essential Liberty for some Temporary Security, deserves neither Liberty or Security."

Many people omit the word, "temporary". The suspicious part of me says they do it so their (mis-quoted) statement appears more bold and uncompromising.

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