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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Everyone in private mode is using Bing video search either way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

They probably should have named it "Schwing"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That would be a nice commercial for duckduckgo. But it would totally make sense for the user. I bet Google payed a lot of money for that not to happen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Yes Google pays Apple billions of dollars each year to keep Google Search as default.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Mmm… I can kinda see the argument. DuckDuckGo may not be collecting your info, specifically, but anything remotely loaded certainly is.

Still, shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Their competitor is Google Search, which is basically surveillance at this point. And they are worried that DDG may leak some data 🙄

And let’s get real, we all know this isn’t some tech problem, this is 100% political; nothing to do with the underlying tech in the least.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I suspect the objection had to do with some misinformation regarding the Duckduckgo browser. I remember reading about the issue and thinking it was about search, too.

The DDG CEO wrote up a response on Reddit and it explains it very well. Here’s a link to the comment on the Wayback machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The images are rerouted throu external-content.duckduckgo.com