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   Robey ☠️ (robey@messydesk.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 07:49:50 JST Robey ☠️

   wait, duckduckgo is just another name for bing?!?!

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 07:49:47 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @robey there are a *ton* of bing rebadges, yeah: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/#general-indexing-search-engines

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 08:19:28 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • brennen

     @brennen @robey my favorite is "not only are we not google, our whole company basically just exists in order to plant trees!"

     https://www.ecosia.org/

     which, like

     ok, sure; even if it's a scam at least it's charmingly naive

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     brennen (brennen@federation.p1k3.com)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 08:19:30 JST brennen

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     • tech? no! man, see...

     @technomancy @robey "look, we're not google! (plz ignore megacorporation behind the curtain)" has had more legs as a business plan than i would really have expected.

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 08:44:10 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • brennen

     @robey @brennen are you saying like ... it's misleading from a privacy perspective? or that it's laundering the service in order to improve the privacy?

     to me it feels analogous to invidious or nitter; no amount of changing the frontend is going to make twitter not be shit, but at least you're putting gloves on before you pick it up

     (but admittedly they are not super up-front about being an alternate frontend like invidious is)

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     Robey ☠️ (robey@messydesk.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 08:44:12 JST Robey ☠️

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     • brennen
     • tech? no! man, see...

     @brennen @technomancy also we should have a pithy name for this, like "privacy laundering"

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 08:54:47 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • brennen

     @robey @brennen I'm assuming they are not passing your cookie directly on thru and have some degree of anonymization, but yeah it's not a great look

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     Robey ☠️ (robey@messydesk.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 08:54:49 JST Robey ☠️

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     • brennen
     • tech? no! man, see...

     @technomancy @brennen yeah i'm just thinking that if you used DDG because they advertised better privacy... but then they're just a gateway forwarding your data to a big tech company... you might perceive a little deception