this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
46 points (100.0% liked)
Neo-Luddites
58 readers
15 users here now
founded 4 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This is confirmation bias though. Most people using DuckDuckGo are people who care about their privacy and don't want to search the web using Google, Yahoo, or Bing. Which are all sprinting into the AI search industry. There's a chest link between people who use DuckDuckGo and being anti-AI.
Whether or not a search engine uses AI doesn't necessarily say anything about its privacy. DDG already processes your queries and passing the query through an AI doesn't affect your privacy as long as the AI model is not affected in any way and the query isn't kept for future AI purposes. But you're right there's generally a negative correlation between AI and privacy and also a positive correlation between people who care about privacy and people who don't like AI, so there's probably a correlation between DDG users and anti-AI people. However I think you meant to say "selection bias".
What I'm saying is, the two interests are very heavily linked. Right of privacy people and anti AI people have massive overlap. DuckDuckGo users and anti AI people are also massively overlapped.