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Do you think DuckDuckGo is a good choice for people who are concerned about their privacy?(lemmy.ca)

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Onse@lemmy.ml
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Personally, I found people to be overreacting and DuckDuckGo‘s actions reasonable and transparent. Here’s the story:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/

I’ve used Startpage until they got bought by an ad company. Haven’t looked into it since then:

https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company

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stonemilker@discuss.tchncs.de
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Their privacy policy and data flow have been the same since the buyout, they were transparent about any implications and the mitigations put in place to protect users, so I’m alright with it. The biggest problem I have with them is sometimes getting rate-limited because of a VPN or Tor, but that’s it. Alternatives like DDG and Brave Search are usually bad for results in my native language, so I’ve been using Startpage for a couple years now and it’s nice

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FarLine99@lemm.ee
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For me Brave search has pretty good results. Not as Google, of course, but enough. Definetly better than DDG.

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Rooki@lemmy.world
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Its not about how good. How much privacy. Brave search is worse then DDG in all ways and form. Bad Search Results, Weird to get and read Privacy Policy???, Brave had at sometime a crypto miner in it.

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dan@lemm.ee
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I think they mostly handled it well, and ultimately the situation was resolved, but I still think they should have been a lot more up front about what they were doing.

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