DuckDuckGo

[+ E.T.Bass]

Have any of you tried DuckDuckGo?

How exactly does it protect one's privacy?

 

For example, they state that they do not track you whether in of out of private browsing mode. <-- What does that mean?

[rustyrex]

Yes, if your searching for less than respectable searches it works perfectly. It just doesn't remember what your search is like google or yahoo. It also gives results you wouldn't necessarily get on google. I also use Tor and a VPN...a little overboard but hey I'm paranoid like that.

 

Back in the day when I returned my cable box I remember the lady giving me this judgemental look at all the porn I had rented on demand. And that's when I went strictly internet.

[+ oldNbusted]

It might be helpful to understand what private browsing mode is and more importantly, what it is not.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_browsing

[orville]

I love it but by it's useless using it if you keep using Chrome. Better to use another web browser and install an ad-blocker. In my case even with those things Google still tracks me via Youtube, Google Maps, and Gmail, but definitely A LOT LESS than before.

[Astorplace]

Duckduckgo is amazing. And it seems to be uncensored and non-monetized unlike google and co.

[+ Lucky]

Yes, if your searching for less than respectable searches it works perfectly. It just doesn't remember what your search is like google or yahoo. It also gives results you wouldn't necessarily get on google. I also use Tor and a VPN...a little overboard but hey I'm paranoid like that.

 

Back in the day when I returned my cable box I remember the lady giving me this judgemental look at all the porn I had rented on demand. And that's when I went strictly internet.

How could the woman tell just from returning the cable box that you rented a lot of porn?

[+ Yellowrod]

How could the woman tell just from returning the cable box that you rented a lot of porn?

 

I always thought it's human nature to want to look at porn and get aroused by it. I don't remember a single friend, gay or straight, that hasn't masturbated to porn. Maybe the cable lady was just frustrated herself?

[rustyrex]

How could the woman tell just from returning the cable box that you rented a lot of porn?

 

The titles to all my rentals were in the billing for the account. She had to pull up my account to ensure I had turned in the assigned box that I had.

[jtwalker]

If you really want privacy, use DuckDuckGo, subscribe to a VPN and run private mode on your browser. I prefer Firefox these days as Chrome and Edge are constantly trying to get you to login. If you log into your browser, then you have no privacy regardless of everything else.

 

The biggest con to this setup is that some sites block VPN IPs, but it's easy enough to turn it off if you really need to go to a site that won't work on VPN.

 

Also, DuckDuckGo's search results are not as intuitive because they are not collecting your data in attempt to profile you for search results. The data collection that Google does helps them provide you with more tailored search results. Of course, it also allows them to mine your data for any other purpose they deem worthy, so there is always a trade-off.