DDG and privacy is a literal oxymoron just like Brave and privacy are. Google and Microsoft Edge are more private even though neither has any privacy.
In practice these documents don't really relate what the company is actually doing with your data. It's just something that has to be there on a website.
It's like ppl saying Telegram is private just because they say so.
Can you give one instance where Telegram lied about privacy?
It is very clear it is not e2ee on their website. They are private. Many privacy features on Telegram do not exist on other platforms.
Google and MS say that they do collect a lot of data. I indeed trust them here... What’s the point?
What does that have to do with privacy? I don’t use Brave (I won’t use anything Chromium-based while it has such dangerously high market share), but I think that controversy was exaggerated. All they where doing was adding redundant metadata (already present in the useragent string), IUUC not tied to any identity other than their own (not just an “anonymized” identity, no unique user identifier at all) to get some non-privacy-violating profit. And the phrase “hijacking links” is quite misleading — they didn’t change any actual links on pages, only added affiliate codes to the suggested omnibar completions you could choose to accept.
(Edit:) DDG I would be careful about. I still use it but try not to recommend it without mentioning https://github.com/asciimoo/searx — which I think is worthy of trust, being Free/Libre — because of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708166.
This line in their post gives away how overblown that stance is. There's simply no way for DDG to be as bad as Google, much less worse than Google.
Still, I know Brave got caught hijacking links but DDG is, among all well-known search engines, the most privacy-friendly without a doubt. Especially coupled with a good browsers and some add-ons. I'm talking specifically about Firefox but I'm sure people here have some more unusual solutions they prefer.
I use FF as default. Brave as secondary.
No. They removed the sketchy affiliate thing.