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29 sats \ 2 replies \ @2big2fail 29 May 2022
i believe this is just unique to their browser not the search engine
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @mf OP 29 May 2022
Sources?
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @And1 30 May 2022
Yeah it seems it's just the browser, the founder of DuckDuckGo wrote this on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/uxiah9/duckduckgo_caught_giving_microsoft_permission_for/i9xxjsn/?context=3
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LaserStack 29 May 2022
This is why I use Tor browser and searx.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @iguano 29 May 2022
pretty sad
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @zuspotirko 29 May 2022
Yeah that's kind of a shit situation. But at least they were honest about it. I hope long term they get into their own web crawler and stuff - I know they already build lots of stuff on top of Microsoft, so they aren't allergic to developing stuff themselves.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @pleb349 31 May 2022 freebie
That's giving them too much credit. They admitted to the tracking after they were caught doing it. Frankly, it is a huge breach of trust. If I wanted to be tracked, I'd just use Google. Delete DDG.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @torresAA 29 May 2022 freebie
We have to have hopes that they will "fix" this, the no-tracking functionality is essentially