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Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com (www.windowslatest.com)
submitted 1 day ago by dantheclamman to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And Searx is the same. And startpage is just google.

But the point is they don’t track.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

DDG was letting Bing track users. They may have stopped now that they got in trouble for it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Wait really?

Best I could find was this arstechnica article from 2022:

Microsoft trackers run afoul of DuckDuckGo, get added to blocklist: Search privacy company still needs Bing, but won't allow Microsoft's trackers. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/microsoft-trackers-run-afoul-of-duckduckgo-get-added-to-blocklist/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah that would be it:

Previously, we were limited in how we could apply our 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection on Microsoft tracking scripts due to a policy requirement related to our use of Bing as a source for our private search results

I couldn't remember the details exactly, but basically up until then they were allowing Microsoft tracking despite all their advertising claiming they wouldn't track users.