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Choose the planet, choose Ecosia: why you’re going to be asked to pick a search engine (blog.ecosia.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Choose the planet, choose Ecosia: why you’re going to be asked to pick a search engine

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 7 months ago (2 children)

no, thank you?

We will ask for your consent to implement Microsoft Clarity when you receive results from Microsoft Bing. Microsoft Clarity captures how you interact with our website through behavioral metrics in individual search sessions and is not tied to a user profile. The information is used for site and advertising optimization, as well as fraud protection. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit Microsoft’s privacy statement and Microsoft Clarity documentation.

Microsoft Bing does also offer personalized search results and ads. This service requires a cookie to be set on your browser which creates a personal profile. We will ask for your consent before enabling this and you can change your choice at any time in your cookie preferences.

Internally, we anonymize your IP address after a maximum of 7 days. Microsoft will anonymize your IP address after 6 months, and if you consent to receive Google search results, your IP address will be anonymized after 9 months. For more information on how our search partners handle your data, please see their privacy statements linked below.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can someone explain to me like I’m cognitively bankrupt how an AI that keeps a behavioural profile on me based on what I search will help with fraud prevention?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think the idea is that behavior that seems abnormal, or a significant departure from your norm might be seen as fraud. I’m not sure what kind of fraud you’d experience in a search engine, but here we are. If I had to make a charitable guess, maybe it’s related to you possibly being logged in somewhere and a fraudster may visit those websites (like shopping websites)? I personally think it’s bullshit with a laughably weak veil of security.

By the way, I love the term, “cognitively bankrupt” lol, I’m stealing it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Ur not stealing it ur pirating it ;)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

I used to use them and stopped for a while, and now they pull this crap?