DuckDuckGo Leverages Apple Tags to Attack Google

DuckDuckGo is growing in users, and at the moment, it is being updated for iOS at the same time as it compares with Google and Chrome.

In these times, there seems to be an effort on users to take paths in which their privacy is reinforced. We have seen an example in the transfer of users that has been experienced between WhatsApp and Telegram, but some people move to other areas, such as search engines.

DuckDuckGo has been known for years as a search engine that prioritizes privacy and is constantly growing. It may not be the preferred option for those who shy away from Google, but it is one to consider. The well-known search engine is updated with the App Store privacy labels that offer information to know the data that the applications collect,  and something interesting has been published.

In DuckDuckGo, they have decided that they can use them in their favor despite having been against them first, and now they inform users that Chrome and Google are spying on them.

Through the Twitter account, DuckDuckGo has published a comparison of the data they collect compared to Google, and the same image already shows what most users probably knew.

• After months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome and the Google app. No wonder they wanted to hide it.
• Spying on users has nothing to do with building a great web browser or search engine. We would know (our app is both in one).
• – DuckDuckGo (@DuckDuckGo) March 15, 2021

DuckDuckGo does not collect user data. A large part of it is obtained and saved in Google, such as location, browsing history, financial information, search history, and many more, as recalled by 9to5Mac.

This onslaught is consistent with Apple’s intentions to improve user privacy and how it has been campaigning for a long time. The company wants the user to be the one who decides the data they share with the applications, not to let them be accessed by default, something that has especially bothered Google and Facebook.

In the end, it must be the same user who decides which applications and search engines he uses, what gains in results, privacy, and other aspects. And for that, it is positive to be able to access as much information as possible.