If I was Brendan I wouldn’t have even mentioned this because people would bring up the Brave affiliate link that lasted like 2 seconds and are not the same. Business knows that a fast u-turn is the only way to prevent spreading of what defeats its reputation. Quoting the article, ” The company has confirmed that it will block tracking parameters from Twitter and Microsoft in the future.”. So that’s a very, very bad point for DDG’s browser but for DDG as a whole. People are fed up with the immensity of the hidden part of privacy intrusion icebergs when they hardly manage the visible portion (so to say). I wouldn’t use its browser and I truly feel ashamed for the company which lacks transparency, aka lies as a policy. Regarding DuckDuckGo (DDG for the sake of sanity) : I wouldn’t use it’s browser but I keep its search engine (after having removed it previously) as an alternative one (main being a searXNG instance). When you have a small audience the first thing to do is to think twice before any modifications. Qwant forgot that, myself and others consequently send it to garbage. Obviously the directives were commercial and this is a problem nowadays when commercials intervene in an area which is not theirs : commercials for business, coders for code, designers for design is how things work out correctly and bring a pleasant and efficient application to users. if I definitely abandoned Qwant it’s basically because of its new layout, ugly, with a homepage that’s looks more as a full-page advertisement than as a search engine’s clean interface. Privacy so to say given uBo (with additional lists than the default ones) blocks no less than 5 items on Qwant’s home page. I used to use Qwant, though not as my main search engine, even if it provides results gathered by Bing but within privacy. The company has confirmed that it will block tracking parameters from Twitter and Microsoft in the future. Interestingly, the person also pointed out that no browser protects against link tracking (based on data from PrivacyTests), and that their browser has started protecting users from Google and Facebook. They denied the allegations made by Eich, and said that the tracking parameters merely send an ad click to the provider. DuckDuckGo denies that it allows link-tracking in its browsersĪ spokesperson for DuckDuckGo told The Register that the ads that users see are private, and are not used to track them. He also theorized that DuckDuckGo is circumventing the tracking protection for Bing, in order to earn revenue from Microsoft. That's why Eich has claimed that the cookie-less tracking method isn't blocked by the browser, because it is not in the code. It mentions that the Microsoft Click ID, which is the tracking parameter, msclkid, automatically adds a unique click ID to the landing page after a user clicks on an ad. Let's take a look at this support page on the Microsoft Advertising Blog. If you take a look at DuckDuckGo's GitHub page for Privacy Configuration, you can see the list of tracking parameters that it blocks. Google's AMP is perhaps the most notorious example of URL-based tracking, besides Facebook, of course.Įssentially, this method circumvents cookie-based tracking, to identify you across sites.
In other words, it is not good for privacy.
This data could be used to profile your browsing habits, deliver personalized ads, etc. how you landed there (via search, a specific article, a product promotion, etc). Likewise, the page that you were redirected to, can know which website you were on earlier, i.e. If you click on a link in a web page, and the URL has some parameters such as an affiliate ID, or other tracking elements, the website can know which link you clicked, and depending on its policies, may earn a commission from the destination site for advertising it.
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