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Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (21 children)

Mozilla didn't choose privacy. Qwant sends you IP address to Microsoft when you search on their platform. If you want a more responsible search engine, DuckDuckGo is still the way to go.

Update 3: DuckDuckGo also sends along more information than I originally noticed, including "anonymous browser and device information with our hosting and content providers for security and display purposes (for example, that you’re using a mobile device)"

The information collected by Qwant includes...

hash of the IP address
User Agent
market segment of a request
date and time of the visit
information of the country and the chosen language
search keywords
where a user came from
type of device used
source of visit
operating system
major browser version

Qwant may (will) transfer to Microsoft:

your full IP address
Information about the browser you are using (the User Agent
The first three bytes of your IP address;
The approximate geographic area at the origin of the search, at the scale of a region or city;
The hash generated from your IP address and User Agent

Update 2: removing name and email as that's only for optional account creation

Update 1: Qwant wants you to disable your ad blocker

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

doesn't duckduckgo do the same thing at this point with tracker links? it also uses bing

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What tracker links?

DuckDuckGo's policy is much less specific but makes it a point that they aren't sending your exact IP address to Microsoft or anybody else for any reason. Among other, IMO even better policies.

we share anonymous browser and device information with our hosting and content providers for security and display purposes (for example, that you’re using a mobile device), but we never share any information with them that could tie your searches or website visits to you personally, or that could allow them to create a history of your individual search queries or the sites you browse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

last we checked they preserved the tracker links bing themselves would use on results, which you had to opt out of.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Can you be more specific?

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