Privacy @lemmy.ml NinjaZ @infosec.pub 9 mo. ago

DuckDuckGo Introduces E2EE Backup and Sync Feature on Browser

restoreprivacy.com DuckDuckGo Introduces E2EE Backup and Sync Feature on Browser

DuckDuckGo introduced a new data backup and syncing feature on its web browser that uses end-to-end encryption to keep the data protected.

The project announced today the introduction of a new feature called “Sync & Backup,” which allows users to import bookmarks, passwords, and personal settings from other browsers to DuckDuckGo. Moreover, it enables users to move that data from one device to another or restore it on a new device in case they lose their original device.

DuckDuckGo’s announcement declares that the new feature can do the following:

Privately sync and access the bookmarks and passwords saved in your DuckDuckGo browsers – including any you’ve imported from other browsers – across multiple devices.

Back up passwords, bookmarks, and favorites in case your device is lost or damaged.

Migrate your bookmarks and passwords to a new device.

Sync your Email Protection account between devices.

36 comments

How about actually improving the search results? It's my default search, which means most of the time I have to do a search twice.
- I had switched to DDG search and, like you, was getting more and more frustrated with their results. I then switched to SwissCows (https://swisscows.com/) and have never considered another search engine since. The results I want are always top 5. Every time. I sopped testing alternatives long ago and am extremely content using SwissCows! I would recommend checking it out!
  
  Business model
  
  Swisscows is financed by advertising revenues and other services. Because Swisscows does not monitor users and thus does not save or pass on user data either for themselves or for others, Swisscows has developed its own advertising concept. The concept is a software technology called AdAnounce that works similar to Google AdWords technology, with the important exception that user data is not passed on to the advertiser.
  
  In addition to advertising revenues, Swisscows also makes turnover with software projects, technology licensing and plans to provide additional software and hardware services. All these services guarantee privacy.
  
  Will check it out. Would love to use Google search less but nothing really worked for me.
  
  Interesting, it's sad that for me the search is quiet garbage and feed me with result based on my IP/location and I couldn't find a option to change that like DDG does.
  
  I tried to use it, but when I searched for stuff like "kdenlive reddit" it blocks the search because it may contain violence and pornography
  
  It says they use Bing behind the scenes and deliver search ads from Bing as well.
- All search results are bad, this isn't a ddg thing.
  
  Sure. With google I get more that I search for. It might be bad but it works for me. Ddg does not work for me in the same way. I use just to support is them as an alternative to Google.
- I've been using duckduckgo for years. It used to be great. Nowadays whenever I use it I have to redo the search with !g or !b again to see the same garbage results and maybe between the three of them I find what I was looking for.
  
  Now I'm using searx with 3 4 enignes selected to at least get their results in the same page. It's slower than I like it to be but overall it's faster than redoing the search in multiple engines.
- Agree. I find solace in SearXNG -- https://baresearch.org
  
  But these past few years the search algorithms have changed to be anticonsumer and now users are using social sites to get information fast.
  
  In effect the Internet has taken the place of Cable News and been ruined and dumbed down.
- If you search a lot, you should really look into Kagi Search, "a highly accurate, lightning-fast, user-centric, 100% privacy-respecting search engine with results augmented by non-commercial indexes and personalized searches." Much better than the ad-supported ones, or even DDG, in my experience.
  
  Nah, it's definitely not important enough for me to pay for it.
  
  The problem is that you are required to give them your payment information and you need an account. That doesn't sound privacy respecting to me.
- Well they don't know literally everything said you so of course it's a bit off.
  
  I've just started to search a bit more specific. Works well
- Both DDG and Google search is so bad these days that I actually started using Bing. At least with Bing, you can ask the AI to find that specific thing for you. Works almost as well as simply adding site:reddit.com to all of your DDG searches, sometimes better even.
Is it just me or am i the only one who simply just backs up the bookmark files? There are like 2 files. The html list and the actual bookmark file. Takes like 5 seconds to do it.
Anyone who uses a remote service to store passwords is a fucking idiot, even when they claim end to end encryption.
- I don’t think you’re an idiot if you use Bitwarden… but I wouldn’t use the vast majority of remote services.
- I use it for shit I don't care about which is most of my online presence. Like shopping sites and stuff, if someone managed to get into my passwords and order clothes for themselves I'd just get the money back from the bank.
  
  There isn't really all that much that can be done to me with a list of sites I've shopped in over the years, I don't even have social media so they couldn't even impersonate me not that that would matter all that much either.
- What happens if your house burns down and you lose all your passwords?

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