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Re:DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with... by asddubs on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:10AM (#31558165)
So many words to minimize what happened, makes the conclusion of "I understand why people are upset with us on this" seem a little insincere.

To me, this is really simple. You entered a contract that allowed a company to circumvent tracking protections. the extent and which product this happened on are only semantic details. It fundamentally undermines your trustworthiness as a supposedly privacy-oriented company.

Re:DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with... by yegg on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:31AM (#31558293)
I am very sincere about this and I understand we have to do a lot more to rebuild trust. I also understand that will take a lot of time.

I do think the details matter though because based on the comments across the web, most people seeing this news cycle are coming to false conclusions, e.g., that this is about our search engine (it's not), that we give 3rd-party Microsoft scripts a free pass on 3rd-party websites (we don't), that we don't block 3rd-party cookies in our browsers (we do), or that any of the major browsers offer better web protection (they don't, and in fact they don't even attempt this particular type of protection).

Unfortunately this takes a few paragraphs to unpack fully. Probably someone else can explain it better and more succinctly, but I'm trying my best here to be succint.

Re:DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with... by asddubs on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:40AM (#31558342)
good call editing out "I'm sorry you feel that way."
Re:DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with... by jsnell on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:48AM (#31558415)
What processes are you planning to change or put in place to prevent a similar incident from happening again?
Re:DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with... by yegg on Monday May 30, 2022 @09:01AM (#31558524)
The plan is to not accept any such restrictions going forward, and this limited one is the only one we have.