Search Engines ...
You know, although Startpage has been my favourite search engine, I do quite like Duckduckgo's approach as well as others, so let me go through the ones that do offer excellent privacy:
You know, although Startpage has been my favourite search engine, I do quite like Duckduckgo's approach as well as others, so let me go through the ones that do offer excellent privacy:
- Ixquick/Startpage - and is certified by a third party. Importantly, it also includes access to their own fully anonymous proxy to view results, if you want.
- Blekko - I am impressed by their privacy policy. Also, as mentioned on this blog post, they respect your "do not track" setting by default. This is good because I have this option set on all my browsers (and I'll note that as far as I know only Maxthon has it set by default). It isn't 100% perfect - it does hotlink images from other websites when it should be routing them through a proxy and serving them over the SSL connection.
- Duckduckgo - I quite like their search engine it has a slightly different approach than Google's and works well. You do have to manually set some of the privacy features that should be enabled by default (eg POST requests not GET)
- Google - enough said.
- Gigablast - although their Privacy Policy claims otherwise, yours searches are 100% transparent to everyone - your ISP, the servers your search travels though, the websites you click, everyone. This could be improved if they started using SSL, however as they claim one thing but do another I wouldn't trust them even if they did change.
- Yippy - on their privacy policy... "Yippy is intended to be an anonymous service. We do collect limited non-personally identifying information that your browser makes available. This log information includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, referral data, the date and time of your query and one or more cookies (described below) that may uniquely identify your browser. International users only (defined as those outside the continental United States of America) are subject to minimal tracking, cookies and other government required protocols as required by the appropriate US Government Agencies such as the FBI, NSA or CIA. Yippy will not track a US citizen for any reason, unless such information is required to comply with court orders or subpoenas or when required to do so by law."
What the FUCK? Two-tiered privacy, really? Anyway it doesn't really matter since they don't support SSL either so their privacy policy means nothing anyway.
- Bing - worse than Google as it doesn't use SSL (by default).
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The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
