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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by girvo on Friday April 15, 2022 @06:07PM (#31046494)
Seems understandable to me. The explanation isn’t just “copy pasting” their privacy policy, either. You are misrepresenting that thread and discussion.

They’re not a perfectly secure E2E encrypted zero-trust system. They do require some measure of trust to use. This has always been true. Don’t use them if you don’t trust that they won’t misuse your data.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by gruez on Friday April 15, 2022 @07:01PM (#31046997)
>Seems understandable to me.

The explanation seems superficially plausible, until you realize many (all?) other browser seem to work fine without a remote server to fetch favicons.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by BizarroLand on Friday April 15, 2022 @07:11PM (#31047085)
They're probably not collecting IP addresses or user cookies, but they will undoubtedly have a log of what their users search for, what results were turned, and possibly what clickthroughs happened from their search page. You can do all of that without retaining identifying information for the person who clicked through.

Worst case, if you go back and forth between google search and DDG, a comparative analysis might be able to identify you or people like you from those logs, but it would require some work.

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