Android

What a mistake It is literally against anything Debian has done the past decades Why would they choose a proprietary software and proprietary service? Chromium at least has a BSD like license and is open source [1], the search provider alternative should be similar Literally nobody can confirm DDG's privacy claims, they refused every independent audits and your search is leaking to their servers [2], it happened again [3] And let's not forget the Microsoft Bing trackers ;) [1] - https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/LICENS... [2] - https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527 [3] - https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/2004

DuckDuckGo refused every independent audits DuckDuckGo android app leaks your identity and websites you visit to them [1], issue they closed with a surprising reply Issue happened again years later [2] DuckDuckGo got caught with their shady terms with Microsoft (bing tracker drama) They estimate 70M-100M users [3], you don't make 100M a year with that amount of users, either Microsoft overpaid them for the tracker, or they are hiding something It's impossible to find their detailed earning reports, so nobody can confirm their claims, and yet it's being promoted as a privacy focused search by the media all around the world, why? despite these major flaws? i don't know So who knows what they do else? [1] - https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527 [2] - https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/2004 [3] - https://techcrunch.com/20

Did you keep reading? This issue was subsequently fixed. > Hi all, CTO of DuckDuckGo here. [... mucho explanation...] > So, we went ahead today and implemented the change for both Android (#878) and iOS (duckduckgo/iOS#667) that will move this logic onto the client, and we will no longer be using the favicon service in our apps. These changes are currently in the release phase and are rolling out live now. https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527#issuecommen...

I read about a Github issue [1] where someone reports that all websites a user clicks on to DDG servers. Reading the employee's response was eye opening. They literally do not care if it has a bad look, they just say "we don't collect your personal information." What??? They are literally admitting to collecting domains in the feed of the Github issue but then just copy and paste their manifesto and expect us to think it's fine. I seriously do not understand this. [1] https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527