“Spying on users has nothing to do with building a great web browser or search engine. Spying on users has nothing to do with building a great web browser or search engine. The Gmail and YouTube updates finally dropped a few weeks ago, exposing the various data points they grab from iPhone and iPad users.Īfter months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome and the Google app. The company referred to Google’s app update pause between mid-December and mid-February that everyone in the business noticed. No wonder they wanted to hide it,” DuckDuckGo said on Twitter. “After months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome and the Google app. Google never sells that data to advertisers, but it does collect an incredible amount of data about a user’s online habits. As expected, the amount of personal data Google collects is staggering. The company took to Twitter to publish a comparison between the app privacy labels of DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser, Google Chrome, and Google Search.

DuckDuckGo offers a search engine of its own on mobile and desktop, as well as a mobile browser app.

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