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This is also known as a "chilling effect"; A prime example of this is the self-censorship [0] of Wikipedia-readers after Snowden revealed that the US government was collecting data on people reading Wikipedia articles.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect#Chilling_effec...

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I want to read that link, but not sure if I should...

I'll ddg "snowden wikipedia" instead.

Even search engines cannot be trusted blindly. Browser fingerprinting is reality and nothing can be done to prevent it for sure. Duckduckgo is known to use Microsoft services and collecting user browsing data without consent. Once you share browser fingerprint with others services, it is trivial to identify your person in global database.

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