I have used DuckDuckGo for many years, almost from the beginning. Like everyone else, I used Google when it first came out; it was new, simple, and focused on search, not data mining. Things changed with Google becoming a sales agent, not a search engine, and I have not even opened a Google search block in years, nor will I.
Really useful framing, and I think it understates your own case.
Every privacy choice anyone has ever been handed is a choice to give something up. Block, decline, opt out, ask an app not to track. Apple's dialog is the cleanest version of that and it still asks a person to accept a cost and get nothing back. Holding 75 percent on those terms is not the ceiling of the preference. That is the preference surviving a bad deal.
The other test has not been run yet. Nobody has been shown a choice where keeping your own data is the option that pays you.
Same shape as your switching cost list, one level down. People have had a legal right to take their data back for years now, in Europe and in a growing number of US states, and there has still been nowhere to put it. No destination, no choice presented, nothing to measure.
Privacy is where this starts. Data Ownership is the part nobody has built yet.
I have used DuckDuckGo for many years, almost from the beginning. Like everyone else, I used Google when it first came out; it was new, simple, and focused on search, not data mining. Things changed with Google becoming a sales agent, not a search engine, and I have not even opened a Google search block in years, nor will I.
Ditto and then some. I stupidly bought a Sony TV (Google). I don't use app but it uses me!
Really useful framing, and I think it understates your own case.
Every privacy choice anyone has ever been handed is a choice to give something up. Block, decline, opt out, ask an app not to track. Apple's dialog is the cleanest version of that and it still asks a person to accept a cost and get nothing back. Holding 75 percent on those terms is not the ceiling of the preference. That is the preference surviving a bad deal.
The other test has not been run yet. Nobody has been shown a choice where keeping your own data is the option that pays you.
Same shape as your switching cost list, one level down. People have had a legal right to take their data back for years now, in Europe and in a growing number of US states, and there has still been nowhere to put it. No destination, no choice presented, nothing to measure.
Privacy is where this starts. Data Ownership is the part nobody has built yet.
wi-fi.
Ayhm
Ok. I'll try it again. But I'm still going to use chrome.
I attribute the current privacy conundrum to two tough nuts to crack:
1. A third are MAGA, A third are anti-MAGA and a third are neither. (i.e. preferences rule)
2. I've considered switching my political registration to independent but it's just not a priority.
I am 100% DDG! BRAVO!
Curse or Ex?