I’m just here to have a good time 🤗
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They do however collect, store and analyze keystrokes, mouse commands and “user interactions” (not sure what that is) via FullStory, but it is stated that text to be checked and sensitive data are excluded. However, it’s probably pretty standard stuff for most modern websites.
I used them for a long time before getting tired of appending !g
after every search because DDG’s results were SEO garbage. I’m trying them again and they seem to be slightly better, but I’m not quite sure. Also it appears that the minus operator doesn’t work on DDG, and when I have to use it, I just do !s
to search Google with Startpage (which I don’t use because it’s owned by an ad company and because its website is a little bit slower than DDG).
IMHO, the problem is that the Web should not depend on ads. Ads are destroying the Big Web as this proposal shows. Although it may be a good thing for the Fediverse and initiatives like the Small Web.
Also there is such thing as a free launch, in a gift economy.
YouTube should be public infrastructure.