![]() ![]() Not that this has stopped their shills from recommending it to people on GNU/Linux, who actually have a choice about what’s on their computers. This despite malware tactics to steal back default settings and scream at the user that Firefox and Chrome and the others “aren’t safe” (Oh, but Edge is? Well, pardon the hell out of me!). Microsoft itself tries to get away from its own brands too, but even though Edge is named differently than Internet Explorer, and uses a different rendering engine now, they haven’t had much luck in getting people, on Windows, to use it. So I think it can fairly be said that DuckDuckGo is a way for Microsoft to gain market share with people for whom the Microsoft brand itself is toxic, due to their many decades of law breaking, bad software, spyware, advertising network, and corrupt business practices. In fact, the number one factor in DuckDuckGo’s search results is what Microsoft Bing returns to DuckDuckGo. (Relatively speaking, the chump change that Microsoft pays off the “Linux Foundation” with corrupted and silenced that organization too.) They have very close ties with Microsoft, which also dumps money into these sorts of organizations in order to corrupt them and shield itself from criticism. ![]() They admit that they have been profitable since 2014, have over 105 million searches a day sometimes, and are growing rapidly. Is it just DuckDuckGo’s own advertising paying for this?ĭuckDuckGo pretends they’re a startup, but that’s not true. No company gives out millions of dollars a year and expects to get back nothing. But where does the money for this come from, and what does DuckDuckGo get from it? $25,000 a year buys them the Tor Project and $150,000 keeps the EFF in their back pocket. It seems that some donations went the EFF’s way and now they plan on killing off HTTP Everywhere permanently. I’ ve been writing lately about how DuckDuckGo is shady and their business is questionable. Guest post by Ryan, reprinted with permission from the original Posted in Deception, Microsoft, Search at 7:50 am by Guest Editorial Team 10.16.21 Gemini version available ♊︎ EFF Pushes for Users to Install DuckDuckGo Software After Being Paid to Kill HTTPS Everywhere
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