Friday 12 January 2018

Inside DuckDuckGo, Google’s Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

Inside DuckDuckGo, Google’s Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor:

"DUCKDUCKGO’S SECRET WEAPON: HARDCORE PRIVACY

When you do a search from DuckDuckGo’s website or one of its mobile apps, it doesn’t know who you are. There are no user accounts. Your IP address isn’t logged by default. The site doesn’t use search cookies to keep track of what you do over time or where else you go online. It doesn’t save your search history. When you click on a link in DuckDuckGo’s results, those websites won’t see which search terms you used. The company even has its own Tor exit relay, allowing Tor users to search DuckDuckGo with less of a performance lag.

Simply put, they’re hardcore about privacy.

But things didn’t start out that way. Weinberg, who says he has “always been a privacy-minded person,” wasn’t particularly concerned with search privacy issues when he first started building the service. In fact, he knew very little about the matter at all. Then early users started asking questions." 'via Blog this'

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