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While don't know how their arrangement with Microsoft works, anyone can pay for API based access to Bing.

Prices are here:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-...

They have ads revenue sharing agreement with Yahoo (essentially reselling Bing Ads) as well.

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.

> 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.

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

Do they track people based on that?

They probably do have access if they wanted it but then they would be violating their TOS and spirit of their entire company by doing so. Whether you trust them or not is one thing but saying they do it is unfair and not called for.

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