Re: new search engine

as stated,
Duckduckgo, is not owned  by Microsoft.



On Sat, 19 Mar 2022, Travis Siegel wrote:

> Yeah, the only problem is that now that it's owned by microsoft, it's main 
> advantage is gone.
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> The whole point of the duck duck go browser is that it keeps your browsing 
> private.  I guarantee you Microsoft has no interest in such a thing.  I'd 
> give it 6 months before it's no longer secure.
>
> Ms is one of the worst offenders of privacy next to google.
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> On 3/19/2022 10:40 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>>  If you read the [email protected] list you'll see the messages about
>>  this on that email list.  I was as surprised as you when I came across
>>  those messages myself.  duckduckgo has been on tv regularly with
>>  advertising regularly and that costs big money to do that.  With Microsoft
>>  dollars behind an advertising campaign things like this are easy.
>>
>>  On Sat, 19 Mar 2022, Luke, Shellworld Support wrote:
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>> >  On Sat, 19 Mar 2022, Jude DaShiell wrote:
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>> > >  If what I've read is correct,  duckduckgo got bought out by Microsoft 
>> > >  so
>> > >  it's now a bing extension.
>> >  That's a nice bomb to drop without any attribution.
>> > 
>> >  "I don't know if it's true, but I heard...", has unjustly ruined many a
>> >  reputation.
>> > 
>> >  Last year, the rumor was Google. I guess this year it's Microsoft.
>> > 
>> > https: //help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/
>> > https: //help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ads-by-microsoft-on-duckduckgo-private-search/
>> > 
>> >  Luke
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