I digress…
First, I know…it’s been quiet. I’ve been taking classes at WGU for a bachelor’s in Cybersecurity. A lot of free time is spent there, so I’ve had to slow down here for awhile. It’s not forever!
WTD?
A billboard in NC had Duck Duck Go on it. A duck? Or two? Is this a chicken crossed the road joke I haven’t heard? No, this is a search engine. You thought the only search engine left was Google? Last from the survivor games? Surprisingly no. And this one is different from Bing or…is Yahoo still around?
Duck Duck Go has a different business model from Google. Where Google wants to know everything about you, using not only its search cookie tracking powers but also tracking with it’s Chrome browser, Duck Duck Go doesn’t track you. They are more interested in your privacy. They still sell ads for searches. But they don’t gobble all that up for later tracking and advertising. When you visit a website elsewhere you won’t have an ad chasing you like the ghosts from Pac-Man.
Switching to Duck Duck Go isn’t all that hard. I changed my default search engine. This way when I search through the browser URL field, which doubles as a search, it sends my search to Duck Duck Go instead of Google. Don’t forget your mobile browser too!
Add another wall between you and the tracking world by using Firefox with Duck Duck Go. It’s a browser with greater privacy commitments than Google. Mixed with DDG it’s 2x privacy power.
Resources
Changing your browser to Duck Duck Go
https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/desktop/adding-duckduckgo-to-your-browser/
Getting Firefox
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
Short and Sweet
I’ll be back with more when I can. Hopefully this gave you something useful.