- Jul 14, 2014
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If this is true, and they had 2 weeks to respond, but ignored the request for info, then they are in for some painful reconning!
Perhaps, but I do want to know what those cookies are for? Yippy could be open to liable, so I'm inclined to believe there's something there. One business can't just make up stuff about competitors.Sorry but this looks like some very bad advertisement...
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Ok, thanks for the reality check! Your right about "throwing out the computer" because privacy online is a joke.DuckDuckGo have been profiting from searches for a very long time. And likely other things as well.
It is public knowledge that DuckDuckGo collect and sell data acquired from their users. However, they use a different design to companies like Google, which does keep you safer in terms of tracking (especially by third-parties).
Either way, they still profit from you as do Google, Microsoft and others... and the misconception is that they "do not" collect information and profit off of you.
The whole privacy paranoia parade boys theme has got to stop. If you want privacy, throw your computer out the window and terminate your ISP package. It doesn't matter what search engine provider you use if you're running Windows 10, using an Android phone and love Amazon Prime.
I was talking about a fast food restaurant earlier. I opened Google and it suggested "Is there a <name> in France". Well then.
Your average smartphone has trigger words. Such data is translated to something else and sent back to the servers - it can be translated back from the safe data to the original data. Or an encrypted copy of everything you said in plain audio is uploaded.
Your best defense is one of these (if your device still has a microphone/headphone jack) as it is a hardware shutoff for their spying API's.
I've seen Android malware written in Java doing it before, so it is possible.Technically that isn't how it works. The data streams would be too long to transcribe full audio.
Correct!However, companies like Google have already been outed for listening to the audio, which means they have concepts which allows the data to be translated back.
The fact it's got a whole separate paragraph at the bottom of the page promoting a competitor's search engine - as @pablozi said - makes the whole article look like an advertisement for Yippy, which I believe it is. Add in the fact that Godfather Politics constantly regurgitates conspiracy theories and misleading stories makes me even more sceptical.
Whether it's true or not I can't say but If you believe it then you can choose to not use DDG, and if you don't believe it you're free to continue using their service.