Weird that these year+ old videos keep popping lately…
Tldr for those not wanting to watch a video please
Duck Duck go has business dealings with Microsoft, so they don’t turn off those trackers. It’s still better than Google if you trust what they say. But the only way to be truly secure is to run a privacy focused OS, and do all your internet browsing through a virtual machine. Using a VPN that doesn’t have to follow the rules of the US, Canada or EU.
It’s 1y old video. TLDR DuckDuckGo partnered with Microsoft and blocks everyone else but Microsoft ads/trackers.
And they were able to change things and get Microsoft blocked as well
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/
Thanks for the link. So it was the app and extension not the search engine.
@TurnItOff_OnAgain @citizen some people are just stuck in time.
More like a one year old post thats getting recommended to people for some reason
Exactly, I’m not sure why old posts are being pushed to the front for so many users but this is very old post and some very old news.
DuckDuckGo claims to have fixed this tracking issue with Microsoft a long time ago now.
Lemmy’s Hot sort algorithm still needs some fine tuning, is what I’ve heard. Honestly, I feel good getting some engagement going on a post someone submitted to have a discussion and just got left out in a field to die.
