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So,basically, this threatens his business so he rants about it.

Fair enough be concerned for your business - but attacking DDG and Google for it is unlikely to win favours :P

That's certainly part of the reason, but I also have the POV of someone who runs many web sites, and I know how annoying it would be to lose search analytics. This is for the greater good of anyone who owns a site. Knowing what searches people are doing to get to your site is extremely important.

Unfortunately "what users want" always comes first.

And at the moment privacy is the buzzword.

You can get some version of analytics directly from Google via Webmaster Tools. It's a bit more aggregated and anonymized, though.

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