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Title    DuckDuckGo Now Fingerprinting Visitors
Date    Thursday January 10 2019, @04:12PM
Author    chromas
Topic   
from the time-to-switch-to-dodododogo dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/01/10/1456249

upstart writes:

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.

Original Submission

Links
  1. "upstart" - https://soylentnews.org/~upstart/
  2. "We don't track you" - https://duckduckgo.com/about
  3. "DuckDuckGo now fingerprinting visitors" - https://forums.whonix.org/t/duckduckgo-now-fingerprinting-visitors/6497
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=31002
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