{"id":3025,"date":"2014-08-25T15:47:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2014-08-25T15:59:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T20:59:36","slug":"duckduckgo-privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/duckduckgo-privacy-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"DuckDuckGo Privacy Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now if only more Internet companies were like the search engine, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/\">DuckDuckGo<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<p>Their <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/privacy\">Privacy Policy<\/a> is simple:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We don&#8217;t collect or share personal information.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s our privacy policy in a nutshell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice.  Simple.  <\/p>\n<p>I do like the completeness of Google, however as the majority of Google&#8217;s revenue ( <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.google.com\/earnings\/2014\/Q2_google_earnings.html\">close to $16 Billion in Q2 2014!<\/a>) is generated via ads, they collect and compile a TON of information on your search\/browsing\/email habits in order to sell very targeted adspace to their customers.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I don&#8217;t want to be a packaged product.  Or maybe I don&#8217;t care.  Or maybe I like the eerily spot-on ads that show up in my browser.  In any case I like choice so there are times I will choose to <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\">DuckDuckGo<\/a>.  Plus, the name is cool. <\/p>\n<p>Finally?  DuckDuckGo likes me more than Google.  A search for &#8220;Hooded Hawk&#8221; on <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\">DuckDuckGo <\/a>results in my site being the <strong>first <\/strong>hit!  On Google, hoodedhawk.com is on the <strong>third page <\/strong>of results.  With all that Google tracks from me, they should at least know my own website!  Phhhhht.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now if only more Internet companies were like the search engine, &#8220;DuckDuckGo&#8220;: Their Privacy Policy is simple: We don&#8217;t collect or share personal information. That&#8217;s our privacy policy in a nutshell. Nice. Simple. I do like the completeness of Google, however as the majority of Google&#8217;s revenue ( close to $16 Billion in Q2 2014!) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3029,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}