There are substantial privacy and civil liberty issues with DuckDuckGo. Here they are spot-lighted:
- Nefarious History of DDG founder & CEO:
- DDG’s founder (Gabriel Weinberg) has a history of privacy abuse, starting with his founding of Names DB, a surveillance capitalist service designed to coerce naive users to submit sensitive information about their friends. (2006)
- Weinberg’s motivation for creating DDG was not actually to “spread privacy”; it was to create something big, something that would compete with big players. As a privacy abuser during the conception of DDG (Names Database), Weinberg sought to become a big-name legacy. Privacy is Weinberg’s means (not ends) in that endeavor. Clearly he doesn’t value privacy – he values perception of privacy.
- Direct Privacy Abuse:
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- DDG was caught violating its own privacy policy by issuing tracker cookies.
- DDG’s app sends every URL you visit to DDG servers. (reaction).
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— source techrights.org | 2020-07-02