• RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Do people still pretend DDG is somehow more private than the other search engines? It’s not open source and I don’t think they ever got audited either lol. I guess that’s why I only see people talking about it bringing up uncensored results rather than privacy thử days, and even that’s questionable

    • sorter_plainview@lemmy.today
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      2 months ago

      It’s just a front end for Bing. Results are taken from there mainly, and they have a partnership with Microsoft. There was an attempt to exclude microsoft ad tracking id from the ‘privacy’ filters of DDG.

      It’s nearly impossible for a small company to have a crawler and store that enormous data.