DuckDuckGo Browser Caught Tracking Websites Visited By User

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[–]SeasonedReason 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

What does "we use these services as proxies to Google, all searches go through Google" mean?

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It means just what I said. DuckDuckGo and StartPage aggregate search results from other search engines, mainly Google. You just use them as a proxy server to make it difficult for Google to track you.

[–]BravoVictor 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

DuckDuckGo and StartPage aggregate search results from other search engines, mainly Google.

Yes and no. Here's what DDG says it gets its results from, which does include other search engines like Bing and Google, but also it's own custom crawler and adapters for sites like Wikipedia. They're not just a proxy for Google Search.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They're not just a proxy for Google Search.

Yeah they are also a tool for Microsoft and other massive international monopolies to push their junk on you at the very least.