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[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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

But the point is they don’t track.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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/

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