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Privacy Statements are the tech equivalent of calling food organic.

You need a reputable third party to audit your practices. Or your software needs to be open source so anyone can see what you're doing.

I'll be switching from using DDG because of this. I don't trust Yahoo, and I barely trust DDG.



You seem to have very high standards for privacy. So I'm curious: If DDG doesn't pass muster, what search engine will you be switching to?


What are you switching to? As far as I know ddg and yahoo are basically just bing already. So what is an alternative you are comfortable with?


Searx is pretty cool:

> A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine

[0]https://searx.me/

[1]https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances

[2]https://github.com/asciimoo/searx


Ironically, your name is organic_tech34. For the record, the term "organic" is regulated by the USDA.


> the term "organic" is regulated by the USDA.

I think the point the previous poster was making is that even though it's regulated, there are so many black boxes that it's rather easy to sneak in a violation and no one notices (whether the company is doing it or it's accidental). Just look at how many organic product recalls happen in any given year due to various causes.


Ok, that makes sense.


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