Google tracks you. We don't. An illustrated guide.

You know all those ads following you around the Internet?

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hay there fish

They're from online tracking.

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ever feel like there's someone watching over your shoulder?

You're also getting charged different prices

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screenshot from a WSJ article

based on profiles corporations build about you.

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No one knows more about you than Google.

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Big Brother ain't got nothing on me

You share your problems with your search engine,

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I think this is what all of those lumps mean

and Google saves all of them with your profile,

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just doing research, I swear

which advertisers use to target ads at you everywhere,

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the pants that stalked me on the web

since Google's ads are on millions of Web sites.

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But that's not all.

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that's not all, folks!

Your saved searches can be legally requested,

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number of legal requests made to Google for user history - a chart that just keeps growing

and then come back to haunt you.

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Your browser's "private" mode won't help you.

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throwing a bucket of water on a towering inferno

and neither will its misleading "Do Not Track" setting.

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'Do Not Track' is voluntary and useless

On the other hand...

Searching on DuckDuckGo is completely anonymous.

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We don't store any personal information at all.
That's our privacy policy in a nutshell.

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our privacy policy in a nutshell... get it?

So don't get tracked when searching. Use DuckDuckGo!

Privacy is just one of the many reasons why its awesome!

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