Since I installed the duckduckgo browser application, while watching via Netguard the different requests made, I noticed that DDG was recurrently sending data to improving.duckduckgo.com
Netguard gives me this kind of information:
Second, we measure engagement of specific events on the page (e.g. when a misspelling message is displayed, and when it is clicked). This allows us to run experiments where we can test different misspelling messages and use CTR (click through rate) to determine the message’s efficacy. If you are looking at network requests, these are the ones going to the one-pixel image at improving.duckduckgo.com. These requests are anonymous and the information is used only by us to improve our products.
My question is the following, can we consider (even if it is supposed to be anonymous) that DDG tracks its users? For me, even anonymous tracking is still tracking? Right?
If someone has an opinion on this question, I’m interested.
My opinion is, that they’re out for me anyway since DDG itself started censoring. Just search for “duckduckgo censored” and I really don’t care about the reason why they do this. I’d like to chew my meals on myself.
They don’t censor, they apply the european law against russian disinformation in these troubled times. Personally, if they block some russian disinformation sites it won’t keep me awake at night. But I understand your point of view.
But it’s a pity that they don’t propose an option to not “track” information to improve themselves like brave or firefox do
