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The end of the Googleverse (www.theverge.com)
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[–] AusatKeyboardPremi 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is incorrect.

DDG just just performs a simple redirect to Google with the query, where the latter has access to cookies, past usage (especially if one is logged in to Google), etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you say that there is no difference in googling on Google.com or using DDG with !g?

[–] AusatKeyboardPremi 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. The !bangs in DDG are for convenience and not for privacy. The convenience of not opening the intended website, and typing/pasting the query to perform the search.