So, Google is clearly paying lots of money directly to maintain their lead in the search engine market.
Bad look for Apple as well. They say they take privacy seriously, but are selling their user’s data to Google, one of the last companies you would want getting your information if you were concerned about privacy.
They say they take privacy seriously, but are selling their user’s data to Google
Only idiots think Apple is privacy friendly lol.
I don’t link to news sites, but if you look up Apple Let Contractors Listen To Private Voice Recordings you’ll see that in 2019 they were sending voice clips to contractors.
Apple has everyone fooled. They act like they are so privacy focused because they do processing locally on your device instead of in the cloud, which means nothing. Google also has been moving a vast majority of things to local processing on their Pixel devices for years now. Is Google now privacy focused?
Aren’t almost all (at least photo editing ones) new Pixel 8 & Pixel 8 Pro features in the cloud? What things do you mean when you say Google is moving to local processing?
Selling their user data to Google? They’re putting Google as the default search engine, but users are free to change it. I don’t understand how that’s the same. People would probably set it to Google anyway these days, which is a shame because Kagi is the best search engine.
I’d prefer something more secure but all of them just suck. I use DDG but more than half the time I end up needing to use !g to get the google results because DDG just isn’t that good.
I really wonder how people making such claims use it. I’m a dev and have to search daily and constantly and hardly ever don’t I find something and when I don’t, the Google bang doesn’t help either.
But maybe DDG just works well for technical stuff.?
So, Google is clearly paying lots of money directly to maintain their lead in the search engine market.
Bad look for Apple as well. They say they take privacy seriously, but are selling their user’s data to Google, one of the last companies you would want getting your information if you were concerned about privacy.
Only idiots think Apple is privacy friendly lol.
I don’t link to news sites, but if you look up Apple Let Contractors Listen To Private Voice Recordings you’ll see that in 2019 they were sending voice clips to contractors.
Apple has everyone fooled. They act like they are so privacy focused because they do processing locally on your device instead of in the cloud, which means nothing. Google also has been moving a vast majority of things to local processing on their Pixel devices for years now. Is Google now privacy focused?
Apple are privacy-focused insofar as they will privately sell your data, sneakily.
They had a big billboard in LA that said “Apple knows privacy” or some shit.
I guarantee all of them ate that up without a second thought.
Aren’t almost all (at least photo editing ones) new Pixel 8 & Pixel 8 Pro features in the cloud? What things do you mean when you say Google is moving to local processing?
Selling their user data to Google? They’re putting Google as the default search engine, but users are free to change it. I don’t understand how that’s the same. People would probably set it to Google anyway these days, which is a shame because Kagi is the best search engine.
Apple does make a big deal about having sensible and secure defaults. This is the issue
I’d prefer something more secure but all of them just suck. I use DDG but more than half the time I end up needing to use !g to get the google results because DDG just isn’t that good.
I really wonder how people making such claims use it. I’m a dev and have to search daily and constantly and hardly ever don’t I find something and when I don’t, the Google bang doesn’t help either.
But maybe DDG just works well for technical stuff.?
DDG is also a for profit venture and uses privacy more as a marketing ploy. They’ve been caught allowing Microsoft trackers.
That was their browser though and you shouldn’t use a Chromium based browser anyway if you value privacy (and the future of the web for that matter).
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Yeah, you have to be wary of whatever online service you use. I don’t really trust DDG but I trust the alternatives less.
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Yeah, but are they doing this?
They are receiving billions so that their users use Google search - why is this a question?
Fucking lol.
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Just arbitrarily mentioning kagi is the best when there are tons of better options.
Are there any other options for paid ad-free search engines besides Brave Search?
IOS is closed source and doesn’t allow side loading, it shouldn’t be considered in privacy discussions
Why not? Isn’t apple able to push whatever they want to user’s phones without their permission, like they were paid to do with the U2 album?
I mean that it can’t be considered secure or privacy focused
My guy, there are plenty worse companies than Google to have your data. Let’s not get too hyperbolic.
They are?
Nah, there’s only one Apple user, she just posts a lot online under pseudonyms and buys a continuous stream of products.