I have heard about them selling search data to bing. While concerning, I don’t think that’s quite the same thing. I get how 4Chan could blow that out of proportion.
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rtxn@lemmy.world 2 days agoDDG gets its results from other search engines. Bing is one of them.
There was also a big thing about DDG allegedly selling user data to Microsoft, which the 4chan primates probably interpreted as DDG being a different front-end to Bing.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It wasn’t exactly selling, but it also wasn’t alleged. They made an exception for Microsoft’s tracking scripts in their tracking script blocking settings on their phone apps and extensions in exchange for utilizing bing as a backend. Here is the blog post where they walked it back after backlash.