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I wish people would stop thinking DuckDuckGo cares about your privacy. It's all marketing BS. The founder sold his old startup in 2006 to classmates.com, an incredibly scummy company.

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Incorrect. He sold his social network "The Names Database", to classmates.com, in 2006. DDG came later.

This is exactly what I said.

Almost everyone assumed you were talking about the object of your objections: DuckDuckGo.

[citation needed]

Yeah, not the intended purpose of that meme.

Like chris_wot below, your comment reads as if you're talking about DDG.

So you downvote me? Nice. #not

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