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Audacity’s desktop privacy notice says the app collects limited telemetry: IP address, operating system name/version, CPU type and optional crash reports; update-checking requires a network connection...
DuckDuckGo maintains a mix of formal integrations (search-result suppliers and browser/app inclusion), privacy-oriented collaborations (EFF, other privacy orgs) and commercial partnerships like ads/af...
Google cannot directly read searches entered on DuckDuckGo because DuckDuckGo says it does not track or store personal search histories and builds results from multiple sources rather than handing que...
DuckDuckGo’s browser, extensions and apps block many third‑party trackers but have relied on some third‑party services and made exceptions in practice — notably past behavior that allowed Microsoft-re...
No tool or method can reliably find *every* image of a person online; the best practical approaches combine multiple reverse-image and face-search services, manual OSINT techniques, and metadata analy...
DuckDuckGo is independent and not owned by Google or Alphabet, and the company explicitly states it has no relationship with Google for search results . While DuckDuckGo maintains partnerships with va...
There are reputable, privacy-focused forks and alternatives to Audacity that explicitly position themselves as minimizing or eliminating telemetry, most notably the open-source fork Tenacity; broader ...
Reverse image and reverse video searches are useful but imperfect tools: they can quickly surface earlier copies, higher-resolution files, and hosting pages when content is indexed, but their coverage...
Reverse image search and metadata analysis together form a powerful first line of inquiry for assessing a photo’s provenance and integrity: reverse search traces where an image has appeared online and...