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Firefox founder suggests Bing over Google for better privacy

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The Register; By Cade Metz
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In a post to his personal blog Thursday morning, ten-year Mozilla vet Asa Dotzler quoted Schmidt in full before indicating that he's not too happy with the Googler's haughty take on data retention. "That was Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, telling you exactly what he thinks about your privacy," Dotzler says, after quoting the Google boss. "There is no ambiguity, no 'out of context' here." Then he pointed Firefox users to an add-on that inserts Bing into the browser's built-in list of search engines. "Here's how you can easily switch Firefox's search from Google to Bing. (Yes, Bing does have a better privacy policy than Google)," Dotzler said. The links are his.

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Comments (6)

Google doesn't care less about privacy. True. Microsoft is better? I doubt it.

Cuil or Mooter or Alta Vista might have been better recommendations.
That's what I thought, too, but hey, I'm just the messenger.
etools.ch or icerocket
I use both ixquick.com and scroogle.org.

Ixquick doesn't save any information about you and Scroogle only saves your IP address for a couple of days.

So Ixquick is slightly more private, but Scroogle submits your search to Google, so it gives better search results.

Neither site uses cookies.

Both sites provide a free Firefox search-bar addon. I use the ssl version of each addon.
My practice is the very same as ComputerBob's.
Ixquick is a bit slow though, but it works. Fun thing is it actually uses Google and Bing, but Google & MS don't know who's using their service. If enough people are going to use Ixquick, I'm pretty sure at some point in history Google will try to 'ban' them.

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