Subsequent comments have pointed to the founder’s background. What’s the evidence that DDG itself is not privacy centric as claimed?

1. Founded Names Database - a social media website designed to collect user information as aggressively as possible, before selling all the information to classmates.com.[1] (got this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23709270)

2. Invested in Locately TWO YEARS after founding DDG.[2]

Locately, for those unfamiliar with the company, had built a proprietary data-mining engine which collected data from customers’ (opted-in) mobile phones in order to understand more about what sort of behaviors they were engaging in out in the real world. It could tell how a customer moved from one location to the next, what stores they passed along the way, how long they visited stores, what sort of lifestyle or shopper segment the user fell into, which competing stores a consumer would frequent, how a business compared to its rivals, and much more.

3. The DDG favicon issue since 2018. Was only promised to be fixed four days ago after it got to the front page of HN.[3]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_Database

[2]https://www.crunchbase.com/person/gabriel-weinberg

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708166

> What’s the evidence that DDG itself is not privacy centric as claimed?

Past behavior is a predictor of future behavior. (see: Zuck, Thiel, Facebook, Palantir)

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Why the downvotes again? I gave a reasonable reply to their question.

At least give me a reason for them... =)

I asked about the privacy practices of the company and 66% of your answer is about the founder and not the company. I specifically wanted information about DDG, not the founder. This kind of response makes me more suspicious of the outrage.

Source?

Last time this came up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23709270

founder has a bad track record on user privacy. Founded Names Database[1], a social media website designed to collect user information as aggressively as possible, before selling all the information to classmates.com.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_Database

His investments into Locately in 2010.

Locately is pioneering the science of Location Analytics. Locately's software analyzes semi-continuous GPS data from mobile phones to better understand what consumers do and how they shop.

Edit: why the downvotes? :/ I like my HN points...

Either someone who's not comfortable with your comment or you forgot to link to a source.

> Either someone who's not comfortable with your comment

Someone who?

Brave team?