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joekrill on July 27, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: One company's plan to build a search engine Google...

> Little known fact: if you buy anything on Amazon, DuckDuckGo gets to know exactly (the precise item) you bought as part of the Amazon affiliate program.

This isn't specific to DuckDuckGo in any way whatsoever. This happens for ANY affiliate. I've used the Amazon affiliate program, and every month I would get reports of the exact items people were purchasing. I couldn't link those purchases to any particular individual, mind you, but I could see exact items.

sukilot on July 27, 2020 [–]

But it violates DDG's primary business proposition of not tracking you.

detaro on July 27, 2020 | [–]

Do they track people based on that?

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