Banging into Google using !G is like searching Google directly. Banging from DDG doesn't confer any privacy protections. A lot of people don't know this.
Right. StartPage.com delivers Google search results in privacy. Plus, it offers a free proxy with every search result so you can visit websites through StartPage anonymously, too.
Hi Sir_Cmpwn. You probably know that DuckDuckGo bangs DO NOT convey any privacy protections. I know people who bang into Google from DDG thinking they are protected.
If you want to get Google results in privacy, better to bang into StartPage.com using !s or !sp -- That way you get Google results without the tracking.
You can use StartPage.com to get Google search results in privacy. Even Edward Snowden has recommended StartPage no-logging privacy: https://www.startpage.com/eng/#home-video.
StartPage.com is also recommended by privacytools.io
For example, Yahoo was caught helping the US government spy on consumers, whether they were suspect or not: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-yahoo-em...
What's more, Yahoo is now owned by Verizon, a company known for anti-consumer practices.
We should all make some easy changes:
- Use DuckDuckGo to get Yahoo /Bing search results in privacy
- Use StartPage.com to get Google search results in privacy
- Use a privacy-friendly email service
- Either quit FB or use it only as a billboard
- Get a Linux distro and avoid Windows OS when possible
- Try LibreOffice. It rivals Office!
etc.