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Re:DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Stan... by esperent on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @12:47PM (#24710073)
I don't have any particular trust in them. However, they've staked their entire business model on privacy. That would be foolish if their intent is to sell user info, because doing that is unlikely to stay private for long.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Stan... by ssorallen on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @01:13PM (#24710384)
Their entire business model is [selling advertisements][0], same as Google.

[0]: https://help.duckduckgo.com/company/advertising-and-affiliat...

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Re:DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Stan... by pbronez on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @06:30PM (#24713574)
DDG is using a very old version of Google’s business model: they serve ads based on your search string. That’s it. No search history mining. No email reading. No broadly deployed analytics snippets and browser logins to reconstruct your whole browsing history.

I’m already sending my search query to DDG for them to give me search results. They don’t ask for any additional data. They just allow advertisers to bid on the first few results for a particular topic.

I’m ok with that.

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