I want to suggest that Cliqz has actually spent a lot of time being open and it really looks like at least one person at the company is putting a sincere effort into user privacy.

We should be extremely wary, but at this point I think their write ups at least deserve a read. I suspect it’s more a matter of the tech and/or trust being too difficult than one of bad intentions by anyone.

(I am unaffiliated and generally very pro-privacy, but read about this last year and the news coverage seemed unfair after exploring their site at the time)