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    Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine

    (help.duckduckgo.com)
    305 points evolve2k | 11 comments | 14 Jun 13 01:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
    1. rpearl ◴[14 Jun 13 02:27 UTC] No.5877943[source]▶
    ...and you trust Chrome? Not even Chromium, but... Chrome. Google makes Chrome, you know.
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    2. sp332 ◴[14 Jun 13 02:42 UTC] No.5877984[source]▶
    You don't have to trust it. You can sniff 100% of the traffic coming out of your own computer. You can even configure a firewall to block all traffic to Google's netblocks.
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    3. jafaku ◴[14 Jun 13 02:45 UTC] No.5877999[source]▶
    All of which is pointless, since you have already installed their binaries.
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    4. hkmurakami ◴[14 Jun 13 02:50 UTC] No.5878012[source]▶
    "make duckduckgo your default Firefox search engine"

    http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216441-f...

    5. daurnimator ◴[14 Jun 13 03:10 UTC] No.5878064{3}[source]▶
    Even if you have their binaries they'd have to communicate home to transgress your privacy.
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    6. TallGuyShort ◴[14 Jun 13 03:20 UTC] No.5878099{4}[source]▶
    edit: Missed the suggestion to block traffic entirely with a firewall - thought the discussion was only on sniffing traffic. Less ridiculous then :)

    You're suggesting people that already stated a distrust in Google do a thorough network traffic analysis after every update, so that they know their privacy is violated after the fact? That's a bit ridiculous, really.

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    7. jonknee ◴[14 Jun 13 03:43 UTC] No.5878145{5}[source]▶
    It's pretty simple with something like Little Snitch...
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    8. ◴[14 Jun 13 05:12 UTC] No.5878400{6}[source]▶
    9. comex ◴[14 Jun 13 09:05 UTC] No.5878968[source]▶
    Yes, I trust that Google has not shipped a binary modification to their open source software to track search terms, which would be (a) illegal, (b) easily detectable enough that someone would notice it eventually, and (c) pointless, since they're already getting the vast majority of users' search terms legitimately. Then again, I work for them, but I would have said the same thing a month ago...
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    10. ta223 ◴[14 Jun 13 15:33 UTC] No.5880462[source]▶
    Agreed. I just searched "PRISM" on DDG, and 8 out of top 10 results had some element loaded from a Google server (GA, fonts, jquery, search box, embedded youtube, etc.) Are you using Google's DNS server? Google owns the web. Face it.
    11. MisterWebz ◴[14 Jun 13 16:37 UTC] No.5880840[source]▶
    How would it be easily detectable?