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StartPage vs. Duckduckgo: Which do you prefer?
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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1755079" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>I've used and compared both. DuckDuckGo is a decent search engine, but not as good as using Google. StartPage is Google's search engine with all of the tracking stuff eliminated, so you get all the advantages of using Google, with none of the tracking. (StartPage relays your search query to Google after striping out your location and other info.) It's a win-win.</p><p></p><p>StartPage (free)</p><p><a href="https://www.startpage.com/" target="_blank">https://www.startpage.com/</a></p><p></p><p>The thing is, being tracked by your search engine is the least of your worries. Far more worrisome is the possibility of being hacked by someone while using a public Wi-Fi channel at someplace like a coffee shop. You can deal with that by using a VPN (virtual private network) which encrypts your data from your computer to your source, and vice versa. The free Opera browser has a free VPN built-in (and is a very nice browser in its own right):</p><p></p><p>Opera (free)</p><p><a href="http://www.opera.com/" target="_blank">http://www.opera.com/</a></p><p></p><p>Unfortunately those are not your only potential concerns. Your ISP knows a lot about your surfing habits even if you use a VPN. And recently our own lovely government here in the U.S. decided that it's just fine for ISP's to gather data about our browsing habits and sell it. If you are really concerned about your privacy on the Web, you may want to use the TOR network to do your Web surfing. The TOR network is made up of a world-wide network of relay servers. TOR bounces your connection between these servers randomly, making it impossible to track you. You can download TOR software to use with any browser, </p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.torproject.org/" target="_blank">https://www.torproject.org/</a></p><p></p><p>but much easier is to just use this free browser that uses the TOR network automatically whenever you surf the Web.</p><p></p><p>TOR browser (free)</p><p><a href="https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en" target="_blank">https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en</a></p><p></p><p>Anticipating the next question, none of the above mentioned products does it all. If you really don't want anyone to know what you are doing on the Internet, and you want to protect your data as best as possible, you need all three things: a non-tracking search engine, a VPN, and you should use the TOR network.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1755079, member: 190607"] I've used and compared both. DuckDuckGo is a decent search engine, but not as good as using Google. StartPage is Google's search engine with all of the tracking stuff eliminated, so you get all the advantages of using Google, with none of the tracking. (StartPage relays your search query to Google after striping out your location and other info.) It's a win-win. StartPage (free) [url]https://www.startpage.com/[/url] The thing is, being tracked by your search engine is the least of your worries. Far more worrisome is the possibility of being hacked by someone while using a public Wi-Fi channel at someplace like a coffee shop. You can deal with that by using a VPN (virtual private network) which encrypts your data from your computer to your source, and vice versa. The free Opera browser has a free VPN built-in (and is a very nice browser in its own right): Opera (free) [url]http://www.opera.com/[/url] Unfortunately those are not your only potential concerns. Your ISP knows a lot about your surfing habits even if you use a VPN. And recently our own lovely government here in the U.S. decided that it's just fine for ISP's to gather data about our browsing habits and sell it. If you are really concerned about your privacy on the Web, you may want to use the TOR network to do your Web surfing. The TOR network is made up of a world-wide network of relay servers. TOR bounces your connection between these servers randomly, making it impossible to track you. You can download TOR software to use with any browser, [url]https://www.torproject.org/[/url] but much easier is to just use this free browser that uses the TOR network automatically whenever you surf the Web. TOR browser (free) [url]https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en[/url] Anticipating the next question, none of the above mentioned products does it all. If you really don't want anyone to know what you are doing on the Internet, and you want to protect your data as best as possible, you need all three things: a non-tracking search engine, a VPN, and you should use the TOR network. [/QUOTE]
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