• PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Looks like you’re wrong:

      “DuckDuckGo removes carve-out for Microsoft tracking scripts after securing policy change”

      https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts/

      “Most browsers’ default tracking protection focuses on cookie and fingerprinting protections that only restrict third-party tracking scripts after they load in your browser. Unfortunately, that level of protection leaves information like your IP address and other identifiers sent with loading requests vulnerable to profiling. Our 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection helps address this vulnerability, by stopping most 3rd-party trackers from loading in the first place, providing significantly more protection,” Weinberg writes in the blog post."

      “Previously, we were limited in how we could apply our 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection on Microsoft tracking scripts due to a policy requirement related to our use of Bing as a source for our private search results. We’re glad this is no longer the case. We have not had, and do not have, any similar limitation with any other company.”

      “Microsoft scripts were never embedded in our search engine or apps, which do not track you,” he adds. “Websites insert these scripts for their own purposes, and so they never sent any information to DuckDuckGo."

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Ahh yes, the legalese that says, “no we toootally weren’t doing the exact oposite of what we said!”

        Sure, they might not tag you with a unique ID that never changes like Google does, but to think Bing is untracked it to fundamentally fail to understand how privacy on the internet works, or doesn’t work.