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whollythrowaway
·há 4 anos·discuss
As far as I know this forum hasn't become the Buzzfeed Book Reviews of technology (https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/30/opinion/banning-the-negat...).

A browser? Extensions? Replacing your search engine? From one company? That sounds familiar. People are equally skeptical and negative of Chrome's security, tracking and ads policies.
whollythrowaway
·há 4 anos·discuss
If you expand the boundary of end user privacy services to "browser extensions," isn't the most intellectually honest answer to have people use an EasyList-adjacent accelerated solution, like uBlock Origin or AdGuard on mobile? That is certainly the consensus here. Is anything in the blog post an improvement compared to that offering?

That's why I'm asking about Startpage. Why do you think DuckDuckGo uniquely got put into a position of jeopardy - something more than scrutiny - when others did not?
whollythrowaway
·há 4 anos·discuss
How did you guys get into so much jeopardy over the Microsoft partnership in the first place? How did Startpage figure all this out, apparently with even better privacy protections, for longer, and with Google's Index - the best one? What is going on?