DuckDuckGo accuses Google of ‘spying on users’
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Privacy-focussed web browser DuckDuckGo has accused Google of “spying on users” after the tech giant published details of the personal data it acquires from the public. The accusation comes after Google added App Privacy labels to its iOS Chrome and Google apps, making clear the data it picks up from users in accordance with Apple’s App Store rules. Close to 100 million searches are made through DuckDuckGo’s search engine every day – a fraction of the roughly 3.5 billion daily searches processed by Google. Up until recently, Google controlled the domain duck.com, which it automatically redirected to its own search engine – something that DuckDuckGo said “consistently confuses” its users.
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