[decryptthis_NSA]

DuckDuckGo: illusion of privacy?

His point is that if NSA wants they can do this and that. I suppose they can also take you to a Romanian black ops site and beat you bloody till you cough up your passwords. The idea is for average Joes and Janes to have a little bit more privacy. When you search on Google, they try everything possible to have you search while logged on and save your search history. All this is linked to:

your real name, location (Android)

maybe credit cards (Google Play, Adwords)

emails sent

videos watched

books read

sites visited (Google Analytics, sites visited that serve Adsense, Google hosted jQuery)

your private docs (G Drive, Documents)....

This is of course to make more money off you, they can charge more money to advertisers, and all this info is ready to be siphoned by Booz Allen and Hamilton employees and to be added to your file.

What do they get from DDG? Relatively speaking, nothing. The idea is to split your activities to make it harder for them, which is great for an average user. By using everything Google, it's even better than sending them a memo detailing everything you did each night.

If you're a target, long live TOR, which is not really usable on Google.