Apple considered ditching Google for DuckDuckGo in Safari’s private mode | But Apple exec argued DuckDuckGo wasn’t as private as believed.::But Apple exec argued DuckDuckGo wasn’t as private as believed.
Apple considered ditching Google for DuckDuckGo in Safari’s private mode | But Apple exec argued DuckDuckGo wasn’t as private as believed.::But Apple exec argued DuckDuckGo wasn’t as private as believed.
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In iOS 17, Apple recently made it easier to use alternatives to Google search in the Safari web browser’s private browsing mode—but the company considered going even further by making DuckDuckGo, which is marketed as a more private alternative, the default choice in that context.
As reported by Bloomberg’s Leah Nylen, the information came to light when Amit Mehta, the US District Judge who is handling the US antitrust trial over Google search, unsealed transcripts of testimonies by DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg and Apple SVP of machine learning and AI strategy John Giannandrea.
Giannandrea worked as Google’s head of search before his current role at Apple.
These conversations happened in the wider context of the antitrust trial over Google search, which, by some estimates, accounts for 90 percent of the market.
Judge Mehta is looking closely at Google’s deal with Apple as the trial weighs whether the search giant’s dominance is anti-competitive in the US.
For DuckDuckGo’s part, a company spokesperson was quoted in Bloomberg saying that the search engine takes measures to prevent “hosting and content providers from creating a history of your searches,” in contrast to Giannandrea’s statement that DuckDuckGo wasn’t as comprehensively private as it claimed.
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