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Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway.

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In comp.misc, whodunit  <whodunit@notme.org> wrote:
> "(p)ing^~dvox:::::::::z" <dvox@hotbot.com> wrote in
> news:q45eo5$4hi$2@neodomea5yrhcabc.onion: 
> > 2019 may finally be the year for 'The Search Engine That Doesn't Track
> > You' 
> > <https://medium.com/s/story/nothing-can-stop-google-duckduckgo-is-tryin
> > g-anyway-718eb7391423> 

Medium: the text site that likes to track your mouse movements for some
reason. Definitely not high on my list of privacy friendly places to
find content. Fortunately it does work well in lynx.

> > Until 2011, Weinberg was DuckDuckGo's sole full-time employee. That
> > year, he pushed to expand the company. He bought a billboard in
> > Google's backyard of San Francisco that proudly proclaimed, "Google
> > tracks you. We don't."

I don't remember when I started using DuckDuckGo. My personal archive
of netnews posts shows 2011 was the first year I mentioned it in a post.

> > 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. 

Yeah, sure. But I've had DDG as default search engine for at least four
years now and gotten used to typing "$item store $city $state". So when
I accidently use Google it feels kinda creepy, not like "flying".

> duckduck is a flawed search engine. Slow as hell, often does not even 
> load. How you know they are not tracking you?? Google is EVIL, only a 
> matter of time before TRUMP goes after all the corrupt companies.

I have never had DDG fail to load, and I doubt you've tried the wifi in
Hell. Hard to prove they aren't tracking you, but easy to prove Google
is tracking you. It's an easy choice for me. Want to completely stop
Internet companies from tracking you? Don't use the Internet.

It's really hard though, since other people use the Internet on your
behalf all the time. Consider my mother-in-law, who doesn't want to use
her credit card "on the Internet". So she calls, say, an airline to buy
tickets and reads out the card number over the phone. Ignoring that the
person on the other end is probably using a VoIP phone, they are just
sitting in front of a computer with a special web portal opened up and
typing her card number into their web page, to send over the Internet.

Elijah
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ditto paying an electric bill

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Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. "(p)ing^~dvox:::::::::z" <dvox@hotbot.com> - 2019-02-15 04:21 +0000
  Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. whodunit <whodunit@notme.org> - 2019-03-08 20:39 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2019-03-08 21:18 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-10 22:48 -0400
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-03-08 21:32 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-03-09 02:15 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-03-09 09:14 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-09 09:41 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-03-13 10:17 -0400
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2019-03-13 16:29 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-08 21:38 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-08 23:51 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. nunnurbiz <whodunit@notme.org> - 2019-03-12 02:08 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-12 21:53 +0000
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. nunnurbiz <whodunit@notme.org> - 2019-03-13 19:59 +0000
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-13 20:17 +0000
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-13 22:12 +0000
              Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-14 20:36 +0000
                Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-15 08:51 -0400
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2019-03-14 21:23 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. carson@aslas.com - 2019-03-09 02:32 -0600
  Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. NUNURBIZ <NUNURBIZ@YAHOO.COM> - 2019-04-19 02:00 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-19 10:53 +0000

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