{"id":139929,"date":"2022-05-28T20:03:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T01:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/privacy-search-engine-duckduckgo-smoked-over-hidden-tracking-agreement-with-microsoft"},"modified":"2022-05-28T20:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T01:03:44","slug":"privacy-search-engine-duckduckgo-smoked-over-hidden-tracking-agreement-with-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/privacy-search-engine-duckduckgo-smoked-over-hidden-tracking-agreement-with-microsoft","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Privacy\u2019 Search Engine DuckDuckGo Smoked Over Hidden Tracking Agreement With Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/privacy-search-engine-duckduckgo-smoked-over-hidden-tracking-agreement-with-microsoft.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ZeroHedge \u2014 On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>DuckDuckGo, the search engine which claims to offer \u2018real privacy\u2019 because it doesn\u2019t track searches or store users\u2019 history, has come under fire after a security researcher discovered that <strong>the mobile DuckDuckGo browser app contains a third-party tracker from Microsoft<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Researcher Zach Edwards found that while Google and Facebook\u2019s trackers are blocked, <strong><em>trackers related to <a href=\"http:\/\/bing.com\">bing.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\">linkedin.com<\/a> were also being allowed through<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p>You can capture data within the DuckDuckGo so-called private browser on a website like Facebook\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/workplace.com\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/workplace.com\/\">https:\/\/workplace.com\/<\/a><\/a> and you\u2019ll see that DDG does NOT stop data flows to Microsoft\u2019s Linkedin domains or their Bing advertising domains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZeroHedge \u2014 On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. DuckDuckGo, the search engine which claims to offer \u2018real privacy\u2019 because it doesn\u2019t track searches or store users\u2019 history, has come under fire after a security researcher discovered that the mobile DuckDuckGo browser app contains a third-party tracker from Microsoft. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}