DuckDuckGo VS TrackMeNot

DuckDuckGo Reviews

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   over 3 years ago
   Google chrome, firefox, edge, ie, opera, are now tracking you.

   ddg is my favorite search engine and it has great restutes. It has a built in video player too! The only problem is that i have to use google in a blue moon to get the results it need. Duckside! Brave! Lunix!

TrackMeNot Reviews

DuckDuckGo mentions (1669)

• Bountysource Stole at Least $17,000 from Open Source Developers

  There's fraud and embezzlement in non-profits all the time. Just entering that in a search engine shows tons of examples: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=fraud+and+embezzlement+in+non-profits When I was involved in scouts this was a thing as well; not even always due to malice, sometimes also due to incompetence and/or inattention. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Desert greening is transforming dust and sand into farmable soil (2023)

  Please install an ad blocker such as [1]. If you are on iOS look into a VPN-based ad blocker. 1. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ublock+origin. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland

  No, I think the inspiration is more direct https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lewis+carroll+alice+in+wonderland+math. - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

• Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

  Yea caught me, I self reported to try and trick everyone. Jokes aside my comment was based on net neutrality if you don’t remember https://duckduckgo.com/?q=net+neitrality+bot+comments Some of the stuff that really chipped at our privacy as our isps got to sell our dns pings to advertisers and social media. Have a good day citizen. - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago

• A24's New AI-Generated 'Civil War' Ads Generate Controversy

  Changing face of marketing? Trailers containing scenes that weren't in the movie has happened for decades. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trailer+scenes+not+in+movie. - Source: Hacker News / 15 days ago

TrackMeNot mentions (24)

• What are your best data poisoning tools?

  TrackMeNot: runs as a low-priority background process that periodically issuesrandomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!,Google, and Bing. It hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of 'ghost'queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data intoaccurate or identifying user profiles. Source: over 1 year ago

• OSINT Guide, Part 4. Preserving your Own Privacy.

  We can apply obfuscation in our own lives by using practices and technologies that make use of it, including: The secure browser Tor, which (among other anti-surveillance technologies) muddles our Internet activity with that of other Tor users, concealing our trail in that of many others. The browser plugins TrackMeNot and AdNauseam, which explore obfuscation techniques by issuing many fake search requests... Source: over 1 year ago

• I feel like this really fits here with the message of how data is constantly captured.

  No doubt, and I agree. I used to use trackmenot. Source: over 1 year ago

• A website/software which spam your Google searches to confuse the data collections

  Https://adnauseam.io/ and http://trackmenot.io/ are two that I have heard of. I think they both work slightly differently tho. Source: over 1 year ago

• poisoning the database

  TrackMeNot: "An artware browser add-on to protect privacy in web-search. By iomized queries to common search-engines, TrackMeNot obfuscates your search profile(s) and registers your discontent with surreptitious tracking.". Source: over 1 year ago