Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! DuckDuckGo is known to be a privacy-focused brand centered around hiding your footprint from Big Tech, while they did keep your privacy from most companies they did backchannel to Microsoft. Let's find out what happened! Thanks for watching!
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Lemmy’s Hot sort algorithm still needs some fine tuning, is what I’ve heard. Honestly, I feel good getting some engagement going on a post someone submitted to have a discussion and just got left out in a field to die.
It’s 1y old video. TLDR DuckDuckGo partnered with Microsoft and blocks everyone else but Microsoft ads/trackers.
And they were able to change things and get Microsoft blocked as well
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/
Thanks for the link. So it was the app and extension not the search engine.
@TurnItOff_OnAgain @citizen some people are just stuck in time.
More like a one year old post thats getting recommended to people for some reason
Exactly, I’m not sure why old posts are being pushed to the front for so many users but this is very old post and some very old news.
DuckDuckGo claims to have fixed this tracking issue with Microsoft a long time ago now.
Lemmy’s Hot sort algorithm still needs some fine tuning, is what I’ve heard. Honestly, I feel good getting some engagement going on a post someone submitted to have a discussion and just got left out in a field to die.