• complacent_jerboa@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hey, as someone who uses DuckDuckGo, they do unfortunately also engage in some cringe tracking. I think it’s a bit less than Google, but honestly I don’t think it makes much of a difference. They collect information about what you search for.

    I might switch to Qwant or something. Not sure yet.

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      1 year ago

      I mean it is a search engine, why wouldn’t they track what people are searching for?

      The question is are they actually tracking you or just the words you’re typing in?

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      1 year ago

      Really? I’ve been using it for a while and haven’t noticed tracking.

      What sorts of tracking have you seen them engage in?

      They display ads in search results, which they presumably do need to track clicks for. But you can literally just switch the ads off in the settings. And then you’ll never see them again. They’re on by default, but not mandatory.

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        1 year ago

        IIRC on the search results page they track your mouse movements and which links you clicked on. The latter I could maybe see as legitimate; the former is pretty sus.