Perhaps DuckDuckGo it is not so transparent about the privacy A cybersecurity researcher found that the Android and iOS version of the browser i Microsoft tracker while surfing the internet. We remind you: DuckDuckGo uses Bing search results, apart from some tweaks.
Gabriel Weinberg, CEO and founder of the company behind the search engine, not only confirmed that DuckDuckGo doesn’t actually block Microsoft’s trackers, but also added that they are bound by it. “It’s part of the agreements we’ve made with the company.”
All legit, it is a pity that the search engine tells its users that it does not track user activity in any way. Without an investigator’s complaint, we would never have known anything.
For a product that makes respect for privacy its main raison d’être, this is certainly a silly misstep. Potentially deadly, one might add.
But let’s be specific: the computer researcher in question is called Zach Edwards The expert ran some tests and noted that when connecting to the Workplace site, a Meta platform, DuckDuckGo blocked Facebook and Google’s trackers, but did not prevent Microsoft from tracking. The trackers in question were from Bing and LinkedInMicrosoft’s search engine and social media for professionals respectively.
The DuckDuckGo CEO has promised changes will be made, specifying that Microsoft’s trackers will only track the user when they visit the sites, but not the searches performed on the search engine.
Source: Lega Nerd
