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Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ... by petters on Saturday May 29, 2021 @10:44AM (#27325566)
Google would be able to get a ton of revenue without tracking users at all. Selling ads based on search keywords would still work very well
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Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ... by joe_fishfish on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:26AM (#27325843)
Indeed, that's DuckDuckGo's main monetisation strategy right now, and it's working very well for them.
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Re:Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their ... by ColinHayhurst on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:48AM (#27326006)
True and for others perhaps. But they still rely on the ad networks of, and passing data on to Microsoft (DDG, Ecosia....) or Google (Startpage).

Apologies for the self-promotion but there is another way: https://www.mojeek.com/support/ads/

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