Re:A New Search Engine
by yellowapple on Thursday December 05, 2019 @08:08PM
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> Would you trust google who does the same thing with chrome?
No, which is why I use neither Google nor Chrome.
> Bing which does the same thing with IE (or whatever it's called now)?
No, which is why I use neither Bing (besides indirect use via DuckDuckGo including it as a data source) nor IE/Edge.
> I didn't close my account with amazon when Ubuntu started sending searches to them,
Amazon didn't and doesn't (last I checked) have a financial stake in Canonical, nor did/does Canonical have one in Amazon. No need to blame Amazon here; that was just Canonical being stupid.
However, per Wikipedia, the same disconnection can't be asserted between Mozilla and Cliqz:
> In August 2016, Mozilla, developer of Firefox, made a minority investment in Cliqz. Cliqz plans to eventually monetize the software through a program known as Cliqz Offers, which will deliver sponsored offers to users based on their interests and browsing history.
> [...]
> On 6 October 2017, Mozilla announced a test where approximately 1% of users downloading Firefox in Germany would receive a version with Cliqz software included. The feature provided recommendations directly in the browser's search field, including for news, weather, sports, and other websites, based on the user's browsing history and activities.
That is: Mozilla invests in a company whose stated business model is literally to scrape my browsing history and shove ads into my browser, and then a year or so later starts A/B testing this as something baked into Firefox for German users. That's scummy, no matter which way you look at it, and no matter how many times Cliqz assures users that "we pinky swear we're not collecting any personally-identifiable data".
I'm taking Cliqz' "we care about your privacy" claims with a hydrostatically-equilibrious and possibly-neighborhood-clearing grain of salt.
No, which is why I use neither Google nor Chrome.
> Bing which does the same thing with IE (or whatever it's called now)?
No, which is why I use neither Bing (besides indirect use via DuckDuckGo including it as a data source) nor IE/Edge.
> I didn't close my account with amazon when Ubuntu started sending searches to them,
Amazon didn't and doesn't (last I checked) have a financial stake in Canonical, nor did/does Canonical have one in Amazon. No need to blame Amazon here; that was just Canonical being stupid.
However, per Wikipedia, the same disconnection can't be asserted between Mozilla and Cliqz:
> In August 2016, Mozilla, developer of Firefox, made a minority investment in Cliqz. Cliqz plans to eventually monetize the software through a program known as Cliqz Offers, which will deliver sponsored offers to users based on their interests and browsing history.
> [...]
> On 6 October 2017, Mozilla announced a test where approximately 1% of users downloading Firefox in Germany would receive a version with Cliqz software included. The feature provided recommendations directly in the browser's search field, including for news, weather, sports, and other websites, based on the user's browsing history and activities.
That is: Mozilla invests in a company whose stated business model is literally to scrape my browsing history and shove ads into my browser, and then a year or so later starts A/B testing this as something baked into Firefox for German users. That's scummy, no matter which way you look at it, and no matter how many times Cliqz assures users that "we pinky swear we're not collecting any personally-identifiable data".
I'm taking Cliqz' "we care about your privacy" claims with a hydrostatically-equilibrious and possibly-neighborhood-clearing grain of salt.