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The CEO sold his previous company's data before founding DDG. His previous company (Names DB) was a surveillance capitalist service designed to coerce naive users to submit sensitive information about their friends.

Is that a fair statement? Can someone provide more context?

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It was a failed social network to help you reconnect with old friends. It tried to get you to recruit your friends immediately after registering and had a typical social network license. I'd say that description is intentionally describing it in the worst possible light, but not wholly inaccurate.

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