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Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (21 children)

Mozilla didn't choose privacy. Qwant sends you IP address to Microsoft when you search on their platform. If you want a more responsible search engine, DuckDuckGo is still the way to go.

Update 3: DuckDuckGo also sends along more information than I originally noticed, including "anonymous browser and device information with our hosting and content providers for security and display purposes (for example, that you’re using a mobile device)"

The information collected by Qwant includes...

hash of the IP address
User Agent
market segment of a request
date and time of the visit
information of the country and the chosen language
search keywords
where a user came from
type of device used
source of visit
operating system
major browser version

Qwant may (will) transfer to Microsoft:

your full IP address
Information about the browser you are using (the User Agent
The first three bytes of your IP address;
The approximate geographic area at the origin of the search, at the scale of a region or city;
The hash generated from your IP address and User Agent

Update 2: removing name and email as that's only for optional account creation

Update 1: Qwant wants you to disable your ad blocker

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

what are you making misleading claims about Qwant for??? if you click your own damn link you’ll see that the only case where they need to collect your name is if you make an account (completely unnecessary), make a de-listing request (to verify that you are who you say you are before removing something, otherwise i could just go and have jeff bezos removed), or if you report something.

also, 80% of your bullet points after “user agent” are redundant because they are literally just what makes up a user agent. newsflash: every single website you ever visit in your life collects your user agent because it needs to know whether to give you the mobile or the desktop version of the site. this has nothing to do with privacy in this case, you’re just slandering to slander

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I updated my comment to remove name and email. But I maintain the stuff after "user agent" isn't redundant because part of it is your IP address and another part is your location, neither of which appear to be included in your browser user agent string.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

They're getting the location from your IP

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