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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by boomboomsubban on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:36PM (#24841513)
Search queries are generally enough for ads, but DuckDuckGo only makes money on selling those ads, while Google also sells your person information connected to the search.
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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by arthurcolle on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:34PM (#24844050)
factually incorrect
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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by nl on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @05:25PM (#24842486)
This isn't true.
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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by hackerfromthefu on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:54PM (#24844144)
the Need Some Anonymity begs to differ
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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by nl on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:45PM (#24844570)
> the Need Some Anonymity begs to differ

I don't know what this means.

But Google doesn't sell data. They let you buy ads against people that match your data or requirements, and that's a pretty fundamental difference.

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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by boomboomsubban on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:05AM (#24847985)
Yeah, I was trying to figure out how to say that Google further monetizes your search info without saying they sell your data, but gave up. It's still why Google makes more per search.
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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by sbuk on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @06:57AM (#24846551)
Still creepy. They still track user behaviour across sites to collate the data, so that they can put you into a neatly packaged silo for advertisers.
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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by jldugger on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:20PM (#24873612)
Need Some Anonymity == NSA == National Security Agency

But not sure what OP meant by that

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