Baker’s testimony shows that Mozilla depends so much on its deal with Google for revenue that “the biggest loser of a DOJ win in the Google case would be Mozilla.”

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    DDG is just Bing on the backend. Why is the megacorp Microsoft preferable to the megacorp Google?

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      I was under the impression that DDG is pretty private and while underlying search is Bing, bing can’t track the searches to individuals

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        Maybe not the individual, but you’re still training an internet giant, just a different one.

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      I’d also be fine with Startpage, want, whatever. They have to use something and they can’t exactly make some poor selfhosters searing instance the Firefox default

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        DDG is older than Bing after all

        Bing as a brand, sure. But Bing was just a rebranded Windows Live Search, which was a rebranded MSN Search

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        So what if it didn’t use Bing at launch? It wasn’t privacy-focused then, either. I’m talking about the present, not the past. Even in their own FAQ they acknowledge that results are mostly Bing.

        Do you have a response to my point that the data is just going to different megacorp?

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