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Search engines like Google collect user data for personalization and advertising, while others like DuckDuckGo prioritize user privacy.
presents itself as a search provider that says it does not retain personal identifiers such as IP addresses, search histories, or device fingerprints and limits data use to anonymized trends or transi...
Google records and links a great deal of search and web activity to accounts, devices, IPs and cookies when users are signed in or have tracking enabled, and it offers controls to view and delete that...
Major search engines publish tiered retention rules that let users delete some account-linked data while retaining other categories for fixed business, security, or legal reasons; Google, for example,...