Submitted via IRC for Bytram
Is this for real? DuckDuckGo has grown in popularity primarily on its claim: We don't track you. Is this no longer true?
DuckDuckGo now fingerprinting visitors
DuckDuckGo is using the Canvas DOMRect API on their search engine. Canvas is used to make unique geometry measurements on target browsers, and DOMRect API uses rectangles. This can be verified with the CanvasBlocker Firefox add-on by Korbinian Kapsner. DDG has recently been redirecting some website navigations to cute pictures with remarks about their privacy promises. The organization is now seeking to expand their Internet presence. DDG are without question data brokers, and commercial websites that make promises like DDG does will not survive for long if they actually keep them.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday January 10 2019, @07:57PM (1 child)
So in conclusion -- over time everything corrupts and becomes evil? Who will slay the duck?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 10 2019, @11:12PM
The Borg will assimilate the duck, and women will inherit the earth. Or something like that. I may have mixed up my metaphors somewhere along the way.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"