Google is tracking you even when you use DuckDuckGo [privacy respecting search engines, via trackers on the websites that you visit] (www.simpleanalytics.com)

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

I think this comment said it best:

This is an obvious, thinly-veiled advertisement for a company's services. It's widely known that ad companies track you everywhere by many mechanisms. This is why we use ad blockers of all sorts. This has nothing to do with DuckDuckGo, it's merely used as a vehicle to get clicks.

And a supplemental note from the DDG team themselves :

This title is highly misleading, implying that Google tracks DuckDuckGo searches directly, which isn’t true... please change it to be more accurate about Google analytics and other Google trackers on websites you may visit.

(copied from my response to the same post in a different community)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

@[email protected]

This post is being reported, would you consider updating the title to reflect these details? Maybe:

Google is tracking you even when you use [privacy respecting search engines, through trackers on the websites that you visit]

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Sure thing, edited

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