Winner: Google Privacy | DuckDuckGo or Google? It’s just that it would have taken additional steps.

I would still have been able to find the Knight Rider movie with DuckDuckGo. The only difference is that Google has some information on you and can put the most relevant results at the top of the search results. The best DuckDuckGo can do is direct you to popular booking sites where you can book a hotel based on your location.īut overall, the search results returned by Google are not that different from those on DuckDuckGo. If you search online for hotels near me, recommendations from Google will most certainly be a better fit than those from DuckDuckGo because the former has access to your location info and former searches. The search engine knows what you want to find because they have profiled you based on your online activities. It’s scary when you start to realize just how much Google knows about you. Unfortunately, the search efficiency offered by Google comes at the cost of your privacy.

Watching TV in the evening, but everything is so bloody dark and 'atmospheric' half the time I'm just sat there watching a reflection of a fat bloke sat on my sofa with a weird soundtrack.Īlso if you're on mobile then installing the DuckDuckGo app could be useful as it blocks a lot of ads & tracking plus it'll work when away from your home network so no need to work out a method of accessing a PiHole when using mobile data.Īsk HN: What do you use to browse HN on iOS?ĭuckDuckGo app (because supports privacy and allows data from non-fire proof websites to be easily removed).

Use and install the extension is an option. The email works where you pick a email name, and it forwards to your real email, minus the trackers. Has app tracking protection, and email protection that strips out the trackers when you open an email. I've not heard anything bad about it from anyone else yet and information can be found here. Have a look at, it has a browser for iPhone and Android that is supposed to block all these trackers by design.

Facebook and Google are handing over user data to help police prosecute abortion seekers.

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