- How Does DuckDuckGo Make Money? [duckduckgo.com]
It's a myth that search engines need to track you to make money. The vast majority of our revenue is from private ads on our search engine (with the remainder being from Privacy Pro subscriptions). On most other search engines, ads are based on profiles compiled from your personal information, such as search, browsing, and purchase history. Since we don’t have that information per our Privacy Policy, search ads on DuckDuckGo are based on the search results page you’re viewing (for example, you search for a car, you get a car ad) instead of being based on who other companies and their tracking algorithms assume you are as a person.
In the news...
- How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI [wired.com]
Matt Burgess and Reece Rogers say "the data you have fed into the internet's many servers may be used for machine-learning features... [t]ech companies have scraped vast swathes of the web to gather the data they claim is needed to create generative AI—often with little regard for content creators, copyright laws, or privacy."
They've put together a list of companies that currently have opt-out processes with instructions for how to opt-out.
- Some of the Web’s Sketchiest Sites Share an Address in Iceland [nytimes.com]
"Withheld for Privacy (a company that is part of a booming and largely unregulated industry in Iceland and elsewhere that allows people who operate online domains to shield their identities) and other so-called proxy services have turned Iceland into a global hub for illicit activity far out of proportion to the country’s size," report Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu.
"The company — created in 2021 by Namecheap, one of the world’s largest providers of websites — has effectively shielded tens of thousands of sketchy internet sites. Even local authorities said they had tried and failed to reach the company’s representatives when problems had arisen."
- Your Wireless Carrier Knows More Than You Think. Here's How to Take Back Control [cnet.com]
Most U.S. mobile devices users are serviced by AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile — but all three of these major wireless providers collect data. Eli Blumenthal details how to protect your privacy and turn off tracking.
He recommends "checking this regularly just to make sure that you're aware of any changes the carriers may have made or new methods of collection they may have added."
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