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@ 2022/05/26Lets Microsoft do the tracking
While many look to DuckDuckGo to protect them from monitoring from big tech, it looks like the search engine is not that private due to deals done with Microsoft.
According to Review Geek, DuckDuckGo signed a confidential search agreement with Microsoft which means that it does not block all Volish trackers.
DuckDuckGo only acknowledged this 'privacy hole' after it was discovered by a security researcher @thezedwards.
The researcher found that the mobile DuckDuckGo browser does not block Microsoft trackers on third-party websites, such as Facebook-owned Workplace.com.
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg rushed to Twitter to spin the news saying that Microsoft cannot see what you search in DuckDuckGo, and the DuckDuckGo browser blocks all Microsoft cookies.
But if you visit a website that contains Microsoft's trackers, then your data is exposed to services like Bing and LinkedIn. This is the result of DuckDuckGo's "search syndication agreement" with Microsoft.
While many look to DuckDuckGo to protect them from monitoring from big tech, it looks like the search engine is not that private due to deals done with Microsoft.
According to Review Geek, DuckDuckGo signed a confidential search agreement with Microsoft which means that it does not block all Volish trackers.
DuckDuckGo only acknowledged this 'privacy hole' after it was discovered by a security researcher @thezedwards.
The researcher found that the mobile DuckDuckGo browser does not block Microsoft trackers on third-party websites, such as Facebook-owned Workplace.com.
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg rushed to Twitter to spin the news saying that Microsoft cannot see what you search in DuckDuckGo, and the DuckDuckGo browser blocks all Microsoft cookies.
But if you visit a website that contains Microsoft's trackers, then your data is exposed to services like Bing and LinkedIn. This is the result of DuckDuckGo's "search syndication agreement" with Microsoft.
