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11 months agoGod help us all if we have to break out the Emus
Funwayguy
Info Sec - Software Engineer - Game Designer - Mod Dev - Digital Artist
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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
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1·1 year agoThis is why though I appreciate what DDG is doing, it’s not informing users about the context of what these permissions are used for, leading to a lot of fear over the wrong things. The data may not even be leaving the device but the implication DDG makes is that it is.
As a side note, I prefer to use DNS66 to filter data and ads by domain, then manually set my Android app permissions as needed.
It exists to abuse and profit off search engine optimisation. More than half of most image search results are polluted with their results which forces you sign up to do anything useful with them.