Apple considered ditching Google for DuckDuckGo in Safari’s private mode

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/apple-considered-ditching-google-for-duckduckgo-in-safaris-private-mode/

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TheYear2525@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Everyone in private mode is using Bing video search either way.

cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Shhhhhh!

cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
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NoiseColor@startrek.website · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

That would be a nice commercial for duckduckgo. But it would totally make sense for the user. I bet Google payed a lot of money for that not to happen.

Stovetop@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
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Wooster@startrek.website · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Mmm… I can kinda see the argument. DuckDuckGo may not be collecting your info, specifically, but anything remotely loaded certainly is.

Still, shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good.

ultratiem@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 2y

Their competitor is Google Search, which is basically surveillance at this point. And they are worried that DDG may leak some data 🙄

And let’s get real, we all know this isn’t some tech problem, this is 100% political; nothing to do with the underlying tech in the least.

hedgehog@ttrpg.network · 2 pts · 2y

I suspect the objection had to do with some misinformation regarding the Duckduckgo browser. I remember reading about the issue and thinking it was about search, too.

The DDG CEO wrote up a response on Reddit and it explains it very well. Here’s a link to the comment on the Wayback machine.

sebi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

The images are rerouted throu external-content.duckduckgo.com