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thehatfox@lemmy.world to Apple@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Apple considered ditching Google for DuckDuckGo in Safari’s private mode

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Apple considered ditching Google for DuckDuckGo in Safari’s private mode

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thehatfox@lemmy.world to Apple@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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But Apple exec argued DuckDuckGo wasn't as private as believed.
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    Everyone in private mode is using Bing video search either way.

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      Shhhhhh!

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    That would be a nice commercial for duckduckgo. But it would totally make sense for the user. I bet Google payed a lot of money for that not to happen.

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      Yes Google pays Apple billions of dollars each year to keep Google Search as default.

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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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      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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      The images are rerouted throu external-content.duckduckgo.com

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