I started working at The Duck Corporation () in 1996, a few years before it went public as On2 Technologies/The Duck Corporation (on2.com and ), and was working with Google/Duck/On2 until a year and a few months after the acquisition in 2010. 'If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is google,' wrote security researcher Mikko Hypponen, summing up the story.īy mydots ( 1598073 ) on Friday Novem (#42074845) Google also owns and points it directly at Google search, which consistently confuses DuckDuckGo users. Every time we update our Chrome browser extension, all of our users are faced with an official-looking dialogue asking them if they'd like to revert their search settings and disable the entire extension. Their anti-competitive search behavior isn't limited to Android.

For a long time it was also impossible to even remove this widget without installing a launcher that effectively changed the whole way the OS works. The Google search widget is featured prominently on most Android builds and is impossible to change the search provider. We are also not included in the default list of search options like we are in Safari, even though we are among the top search engines in many countries. Commenting on the record $5 billion fine on Google by the European Commission, privacy focused search engine DuckDuckGo said this week it welcomes the decision as it has 'felt effects first hand for many years and has led directly to us having less market share on Android vs iOS and in general mobile vs desktop.' The company said: Up until just last year, it was impossible to add DuckDuckGo to Chrome on Android, and it is still impossible on Chrome on iOS.

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