They are fed up with all the intended and unintended consequences this online tracking creates, including invasive ads, identity theft, discrimination, and manipulation,” Weinberg proclaimed. And there were times when DuckDuckGo couldn’t figure out what I was looking for when Google could, especially for more obscure queries. Take our business for example: When you type in a search on DuckDuckGo, we simply show you ads related to that search. It also has to contend with the fact that most people don’t seem willing to give up much to recover their privacy, and are easily overwhelmed when they decide to try to make a change. But the internet giant has not taken kindly to DuckDuckGo’s suggestions that it is selling information about its users to the highest bidder. We’ll tell you what you can do about it. Customers use DuckDuckGo’s search a billion times a month -- that’s 1 percent of the U.S. search market, compared with 89 percent for Google, says StatCounter. Weinberg’s testimony was, as you might expect, self-serving and promotional for DuckDuckGo. We also offer a mobile privacy browser [that competes with Google Chrome]. Charlie Nash is a reporter for Breitbart Tech. Weinberg’s own takeaway, after the senators were done: “It seems there is wide bipartisan support for federal privacy legislation.”, © 2020 The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC Terms of Use/Privacy Policy, DuckDuckGo.com Founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg inside his companies headquarters in Paoli. Gabriel Weinberg, founder and boss at Paoli-based DuckDuckGo, testified Tuesday before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, saying that his company could be profitable and protect consumer privacy at the same time. During the question-and-answer session, senators led by committee chairman Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) badgered Google general counsel Will DeVries and other corporate representatives about their data capabilities, while urging Weinberg and consumer advocates to provide their wish lists of privacy protections and corporate limits.
Published by at 15 settembre 2020. Our privacy policy is straightforward and doesn’t require a law degree to decipher: We simply do not collect or share any personal information at all.”, Weinberg then declared, “Privacy legislation is not anti-advertising. tried to chart a middle course between the “benefits” of social media and the “huge risks” both of privacy lost and hurting “competitiveness and innovation.”. DuckDuckGo’s chief executive has repeatedly called for new privacy-focused legislation and has warned at hearings and in newspaper opinion pieces about the problems that big companies can cause by tracking our every move online. It also provides a vision of what the internet might look like if companies are forced to scale back the surveillance economy. In October, it was reported that DuckDuckGo had reached 30 million searches on its engine per day, while earlier last year, Weinberg wrote an article for CNBC explaining why Google and Facebook have to be stopped from tracking everything their users do. Gabriel Weinberg - $2,200 in Political Contributions for 2010, Campaign Finance, Money, American politics, American political campaign contributions, presidential campaign contributions Started over a decade ago, DuckDuckGo offers a privacy-focused alternative to Google’s search engine. “DuckDuckGo is very much a poster child for a future in which companies stand with their users and still make money,” said Gennie Gebhart, a researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit focused on privacy and online rights. DuckDuckGo is also up against another hard reality of the online world: If you call up DuckDuckGo on the Chrome browser, for example, Google is still logging your search queries. "We nonetheless are able to make money through advertising. "The American people are tired of being watched everywhere they go online.
Andrew Thayer / Staff Photographer. During his testimony, Weinberg claimed “privacy legislation, like the GDPR and CCPA, is not only pro-consumer, but also pro-business, and pro-advertising.”, “As you know, people are tired of being watched everywhere they go online.