• UprisingVoltage@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    Honestly yeah. There’s been some controversies in the past, but for someone who’s looking for a zero-effort way to browse privately and support the privacy scene (DDG donates a lot of money) it’s a great choice. Wouldn’t recommend their browser/extensions though

    • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Definitely would agree with this. The best of a bad bunch. I use it for nearly all my search.

      Did see some sketchy stuff with the android app/browser so probably would avoid… and besides, I’m in a decades long relationship with firefox <3.

      • janonymous@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Do you use Firefox on mobile as well? I use the DDG browser and don’t whether I should switch. Haven’t heard what exactly is wrong with it, yet.

    • Rooki@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The “Privacy Statement” of Brave Search is somewhat weird tbh. Not clear, Obfuscated.

            • 133arc585@lemmy.ml
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              1 year ago

              Edit: My comment below was based on a faulty understanding of how EDDM mailers worked and a faulty assumption I based on that ignorance. What they did in reality is little more than sending out spam mail, it was not a privacy violation.

              Purely from a privacy standpoint, however, there has never been an indication they have violated users’ trust in that regard.

              That’s simply not true though.

              They have sent out direct mailers that basically equated to a customer list leak.

              In regards to the mailers, they messed up and passed blame,

              In this process, our EDDM vendor made a significant mistake by not excluding names, but instead including names before addresses, resulting in the distribution of personalized mailers.

              I hope you consider a customer list leak to be a breach of privacy. And seeing how they didn’t take responsibility but tried to pass blame, they didn’t take such a mistake very seriously or respond in a manner that instills further trust.

  • Milk@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    DDG was known as the best option for search engines but then they started talking of censoring stuff and also it has Microsoft trackers and other problems. Yes, it is still better than Google, Bing and Yandex when talking of privacy but with search engines like Qwant and specially SearX (SearXNG) there’s no reason to use DDG over these.