DuckDuckGo Denies Using Fingerprinting To Track Its Users (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday January 7, 2019 @07:29AM from the setting-the-record dept.

Mark Wilson writes: Responding to a forum post that accused it of 'fingerprinting users', privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo says that fears are unfounded and that it is not tracking its users. The allegation was made after the Firefox extension CanvasBlocker showed a warning to users. The suggestion of fingerprinting -- gathering as much information as possible about a user through their browser to create a unique identifier that can be used for tracking -- is clearly something that would seem to sit in opposition to what DuckDuckGo claims to stand for. The company CEO says the accusation is simply wrong.

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this is based on a forum post? by GregMmm · 2019-01-07 07:44 · Score: 5, Insightful

So, one guy on posts on a forum a certain API is being blocked by his Firefox extension CanvasBlocker. Not that the one individual has anything showing some tracking and data gathering, he just sees an API being used. Without any real evidence what so ever. Sounds like someone wants to sow seeds of mistrust at DuckDuckGo.
Re:Silly name by OneHundredAndTen · 2019-01-07 07:46 · Score: 4, Insightful

Because of the aforementioned not-tracking stuff? And the results are as good as Google.
In my experience they are not. Not even close. I wish I could ditch Google, but DuckDuckGo cannot (yet) fill Google's search shoes.