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Apple considered ditching Google for DuckDuckGo in Safari’s private mode(arstechnica.com)

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Wooster@startrek.website
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Mmm… I can kinda see the argument. DuckDuckGo may not be collecting your info, specifically, but anything remotely loaded certainly is.

Still, shouldn’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

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meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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Their competitor is Google Search, which is basically surveillance at this point. And they are worried that DDG may leak some data 🙄

And let’s get real, we all know this isn’t some tech problem, this is 100% political; nothing to do with the underlying tech in the least.

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hedgehog@ttrpg.network
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I suspect the objection had to do with some misinformation regarding the Duckduckgo browser. I remember reading about the issue and thinking it was about search, too.

The DDG CEO wrote up a response on Reddit and it explains it very well. Here’s a link to the comment on the Wayback machine.

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sebi@lemmy.world
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The images are rerouted throu external-content.duckduckgo.com

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