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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

Update: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-outage-affects-bing-copilot-duckduckgo-and-chatgpt-internet-search/

It's also important to note that ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo are experiencing similar issues because they use the Bing API.

UPDATE 2

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[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 18 points 6 months ago

But they don’t keep your history, nor target you, nor enable others to target you. Why is it an issue, under those circumstances, that they rely on bing’s index?

[-] BaardFigur@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

How can you know that to be true, without looking at their source code? They already breached our trust once https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/uy5232/duckduckgo_browser_allows_microsoft_trackers_due/

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 points 6 months ago

You can’t. At the end of the day, you’ve got to trust someone. You cannot personally verify every layer of your technology stack. I’m happier with DDG than any other place.

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