Posted on 12/14/2015 4:49:26 PM PST by Be Careful
A great search engine that doesn't track you.
True - And your ISP is required to retain your every move on the internet for 7 years... not to mention NSA sniffing.
The only way to be anonymous on the internet, as any decent hacker will tell you, is to use a device that is no way traceable to you, that has no information within it traceable to you, running linux with a mac addy spoofer, from a public location, or better yet, an open private router (not as likely to have video cameras recording your presence outside).
That being said, using tracking search engines adds to the problem by way of supporting their ubiquity.
:) me too
DuckDuckGo certainly does log your ip, they just claim not to “keep it logged,” so it theoretically isn’t linked to your query, in a nutshell. Color me skeptical that they really don’t. Hell, DuckDuckGo may funnel your searches straight to the NSA (not that the NSA couldn’t get it regardless), or some other party, which would/could then store and provide to DDG unfetter access to that info they “didn’t store.” The fact that they claim the NSA wouldn’t be able to make anything of what data DDG has is BS, which causes me to question everything else they claim.
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I agree with you and in a nutshell....we are all probably screwed
One of these other search engines did not track your search using them, but once you selected a search result, you were exposed to the website of the result page. It may be in the fine print.
Sis told me the other day she signed into duck duck to look up something she wanted to buy and as soon as she went to face book there were ads everywhere for what she had just looked at.
Happily using it for several years.
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