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"Yes, a security researcher revealed this week that even DuckDuckGo, which markets itself as "the internet privacy company," made an exception for its business partner Microsoft to its browser's blocking of some advertising trackers on websites, sparking accusations of betraying its purported privacy ethos."
No offense but I am not sure why people trust duckduckgo or brave. Brave for the obvious concerns with controversy surrounding their CEO. And duckduckgo for essentially being diet bing.
It's worth noting that DDG did update their policy after the blowback.
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Now I remember why I started using DDG, they are as transparent as they can be as a search engine. Thanks for sharing these useful links.
And the Duck also has a sketchy CEO