#Cloudflare has now surpassed MitMing *1/3rd* of the world's websites, controlling a staggering 34%. And yet privacy seekers naively continue to use so-called "privacy focused" search engines like #DuckDuckGo, which neglects to filter out Cloudflare sites from the results.
@resist1984 Privacy-related advantages of using search engines like https://duckduckgo.com/privacy are not just content control. They step you out of your filter-bubble. Today it is as if our library had two different old-fashioned card catalogs, based on our race. Worse, now global communications are mediated by analytic marketing bots, selecting your miniscule filter-bubble for you. What better explanation is needed to explain contemporary increases in cross-sector conflicts?
@Delib DDG users are inherently subjected to the same censorship that comes from Bing because Bing is DDG's source. While that censorship hits all DDG users across the board, there is also nothing to stop DDG from putting users in Microsoft's individualized filter bubble because MS sees the IP address & queries of DDG users (since DDG is also MS-hosted).
@resist1984 I thought I read that duckduckgo makes the queries without sending through the user's IP info?
@Delib #DuckDuckGo does not pro-actively send IP info to MS w/the query according to the privacy policy (which is hard to trust considering #DDG has been caught violating it multiple times). But if you trust the privacy policy, MS still sees your IP when you connect since MS hosts DDG. And MS also sees your query which DDG proxies to Bing. So MS can work out for itself IP-query pairings.
@resist1984 So there are ways to trace internet users of duckduckgo (DDG), I see that from your refs. And we should always assume that the internet is insecure. It was never meant to be (not my preference of course). But one good thing about DDG privacy policies is that I can search this analagous 'library catalog' of the internet and be relatively sure I am getting the same results you get when we do the same search, no?
@Delib When #Microsoft censors a result from its searches, so does #DuckDuckGo because #DDG does not significantly diversify its sources. #MS is the primary source. So effectively you may not be in a personalized filter bubble, but you're in Microsoft's global filter bubble when using DDG
@resist1984 "you're in Microsoft's global filter bubble when using DDG" . Tnanks that's good to know. Will pay attention to that in the future.
@Delib And because the public doesn't get to see the agreement between DDG & MS, there's no guarantee that DDG has mirrored through their contract with MS terms & conditions that uphold the effect of DDG's privacy policy.