The DuckDuckGo extension is to provide duckduckgo searches using chrome, DDG's ads on 'their' site doesn't track you while your browsing the search results or when you click, however once you reach the page of the link you click on, then and only then are you probably catalogued and or recorded. But thats the independent site you visited not DDG. DDG can't force the websites you visit that you found using their service to not record or track you once you get there. In otherwords, ads can and do track, but the ads displayed on DDG do not...
"We do not use any third parties to do the code insertion, and we do not work with any sites that share personally identifiable information (e.g. name, address, etc.) via their affiliate programs. This means that no information is shared from DuckDuckGo to the sites, and the only information that is collected from this process is product information, which is not tied to any particular user and which we do not save or store on our end. It is completely analogous to the search result case from the previous paragraph--we can see anonymous product info such that we cannot tie them to any particular person (or even tie multiple purchases together). This whole affiliate process is an attempt to keep advertising to a minimal level on DuckDuckGo."
Its not just about tracking and collecting information on your habits that makes their searches relevant to you? You really think so? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzZzf6PoyC4
I don't use it. I was just pointing out that their 'vast resources' are coming from the sale of your info, nothing more. Isn't that the point of these posts? Your comparing one search engine that is 'trying' to keep your searches private yet complaining they don't have the resources, when most of those resources for Google are coming from not keeping your searches private. I'm not sure where the complaint and or comparison is taking place. I freely give DDG my search data and they aren't using it to their advantage in the same manner google is, so whats your point again about ddg not being as good? I don't get your argument at all.
2nd wrong, DDG doesn't use Google for search results at all. Google essentially killed Scroogle that did exactly what startpage is doing now by banning their search proxy, which makes one wonder, what is the special relationship that startpage has with google that scroogle did not.
Holy defeatest attitude. Your not sold? LOL no your being sold ever single day. Those things leak data? Find some proof besides your own mind. Talk about stockholm syndrome.
For those who think only Google can find what your looking for there is two reasons for that, one of course is they are tracking the crap out of you and tailoring search results for you in your own little search bubble world you've created, but an even bigger reason why some have trouble switching is because whether you know it or not, you've trained your brain to search in a Google like fashion, in otherwords, every search engine takes a little finessing when choosing what terms your use in your search, I've been using DuckDuckGo so long now, that my brain is now trained to use DuckDuckGo style search terms, so much so that those same terms don't always work on Google when they work just as I expected on DuckDuckGo. If anyone wants some pointers on how to make the change, simply try adding one extra search parameter to your regular query that you would use on google and wala, duckduckgo will more than likely find it, which to me is a small price to pay for a bit more privacy. Yes at times I also !g bang google, but its gets more or more less frequent.
"We do not use any third parties to do the code insertion, and we do not work with any sites that share personally identifiable information (e.g. name, address, etc.) via their affiliate programs. This means that no information is shared from DuckDuckGo to the sites, and the only information that is collected from this process is product information, which is not tied to any particular user and which we do not save or store on our end. It is completely analogous to the search result case from the previous paragraph--we can see anonymous product info such that we cannot tie them to any particular person (or even tie multiple purchases together). This whole affiliate process is an attempt to keep advertising to a minimal level on DuckDuckGo."