Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder7.news.weretis.net!feeder5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!rasp.therandymon.com!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 23:40:34 -0500 Organization: solani.org Lines: 18 Message-ID: <2nsblf-amd.ln1@rasp.therandymon.com> References: Reply-To: randy@therandymon.com X-Trace: solani.org 1552129204 10087 127.0.0.43 (9 Mar 2019 11:00:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 11:00:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) X-Face: 6rW>>7|C1$,hMeGw9xJ1v9}L5=Jq(}":O@72yaUP1?H$W,ZB1)c'mP5; v* Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ncv57CcvOoEApVmiDAvmTWISHWE= X-User-ID: eJwNy8EBwCAIA8CVQEnEcQyW/Uew9z9MOmsFwUCji31ipXGrL8NRE5aGo3HuyPHJpD+4VN47HxzoEVY= Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:17521 On 2019-03-08, Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote: >> > Using DuckDuckGo can feel like relearning to walk after you've spent a >> > decade flying. On Google, a search for, say, "vape shop" yields a map >> > of vape shops in my area. On DuckDuckGo, that same search returns a >> > list of online vaporizer retailers. >> > The difference, of course, is the data: Google knows that I'm in ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> > Durham, North Carolina. As far as DuckDuckGo is concerned, I may as ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> > well be on the moon. I mean, isn't that the point? Google knows all that, and far more. They're also now correlating your online searches with physical purchases (where you use a credit card), and they may have your DNS data and they certainly have your recent locations, and who knows what else? So yay, they showed you how to buy a vape a lot more easily. But at the expense of you sacrificing one hell of a lot of information.