Presumably DDG pays Google for the use of their search API anyway.
DDG's business model is to sell ads on its platform, so you have to trust that they won't use those to spy on you or infect your machine with malware. Unfortunately they seem to be using the Bing and Amazon ad networks.
DDG's business model is to sell ads on its platform, so you have to trust that they won't use those to spy on you or infect your machine with malware. Unfortunately they seem to be using the Bing and Amazon ad networks.
They use bing, and curate the ads served. [duck.co] Something fundamentally different, remember when companies had their own ad hosts and only allowed specific ads? Yeah...those were the days before giant ad networks spewing malware. Oh, the other way is via affiliate links aka you click on a product they get a cut. They also don't follow you around the internet like a crazy ex that just can't seem to let go.
I tried their example of searching for "car", which they claim does not track you. I can't post the URL of the advert as plain text due to the lameness filter, so you will have to hover over the following:
So we have a bounce through yahoo.com, who do track you, "dartsearch.net" which is part of the DoubleClick network, a unique "ad_provider" ID and what looks like a number of other IDs. Also, it's HTTP, not even HTTPS, so now your ISP/employer has that data too.
Finally, the link that you claim says they curate ads actually says
By default, when you sign up for a Bing Ads account, your ads should automatically enter rotation into all of Bing's distribution channels including DuckDuckGo.
In other words they throw up whatever Bing deems to be okay.
So we have a bounce through yahoo.com, who do track you, "dartsearch.net" which is part of the DoubleClick network, a unique "ad_provider" ID and what looks like a number of other IDs. Also, it's HTTP, not even HTTPS, so now your ISP/employer has that data too.
Strange because the result I see is fundamentally different. It's all HTTPS, the referrer ID is static when using different browsers, and only shows a different ID when using a VPN in turn a different country. Which is likely the reason that you're seeing something different. The ad server is the same - 'yhs' or yahoo.
In other words they throw up whatever Bing deems to be okay.
That's not what it says, and even at that unlike google they give you the option to "report bad ads."
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F Google, use DuckDuckGo (Score:5, Insightful)
Deplatform Google. Hit them in the wallet, it's all they understand.
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Hit them in the wallet, it's all they understand.
Good luck with that. Using Duck Duck Go won't even register in the Google accounting department.
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Presumably DDG pays Google for the use of their search API anyway.
DDG's business model is to sell ads on its platform, so you have to trust that they won't use those to spy on you or infect your machine with malware. Unfortunately they seem to be using the Bing and Amazon ad networks.
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Presumably DDG pays Google for the use of their search API anyway.
No, they actually don't. [duck.co]
DDG's business model is to sell ads on its platform, so you have to trust that they won't use those to spy on you or infect your machine with malware. Unfortunately they seem to be using the Bing and Amazon ad networks.
They use bing, and curate the ads served. [duck.co] Something fundamentally different, remember when companies had their own ad hosts and only allowed specific ads? Yeah...those were the days before giant ad networks spewing malware. Oh, the other way is via affiliate links aka you click on a product they get a cut. They also don't follow you around the internet like a crazy ex that just can't seem to let go.
Re:F Google, use DuckDuckGo (Score:4, Interesting)
I tried their example of searching for "car", which they claim does not track you. I can't post the URL of the advert as plain text due to the lameness filter, so you will have to hover over the following:
ad link [duckduckgo.com]
So we have a bounce through yahoo.com, who do track you, "dartsearch.net" which is part of the DoubleClick network, a unique "ad_provider" ID and what looks like a number of other IDs. Also, it's HTTP, not even HTTPS, so now your ISP/employer has that data too.
Finally, the link that you claim says they curate ads actually says
By default, when you sign up for a Bing Ads account, your ads should automatically enter rotation into all of Bing's distribution channels including DuckDuckGo.
In other words they throw up whatever Bing deems to be okay.
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So we have a bounce through yahoo.com, who do track you, "dartsearch.net" which is part of the DoubleClick network, a unique "ad_provider" ID and what looks like a number of other IDs. Also, it's HTTP, not even HTTPS, so now your ISP/employer has that data too.
Strange because the result I see is fundamentally different. It's all HTTPS, the referrer ID is static when using different browsers, and only shows a different ID when using a VPN in turn a different country. Which is likely the reason that you're seeing something different. The ad server is the same - 'yhs' or yahoo.
In other words they throw up whatever Bing deems to be okay.
That's not what it says, and even at that unlike google they give you the option to "report bad ads."