Update: Disconnect co-founder Casey Oppenheim said Google is not actively blocking the service’s access “as far as we know”, telling TechCrunch: “Google is currently unavailable as an option inside our private search service, which appears to be related to Google’s deprecating their search APIs.” We’ve reached out Disconnect, Google and Tor with questions about the situation and will update this post with any response.
Then in June last year Disconnect filed an antitrust complaint against Google in the EU on account of its app being banned. It routes searches via its servers to help obscure the user’s IP address - a feature which aligns with the private browsing mission of Tor.Īlthough Disconnect was founded by several ex-Googlers it has not enjoyed the smoothest relationship with Mountain View - with the latter removing its anti-tracking mobile app from its Android Play Store back in 2014.
(Although Tor users can of course choose to browse directly to use Google if they wish - with all the baked in tracking that searching via Google entails.)ĭisconnect became the default search provider for Tor back in May 2015. It is still possible for Tor users to specify they wish to search via Bing (or Yahoo) via Disconnect. While Disconnect is still trying to fix the situation we asked them to change the fallback to DuckDuckGo as their search results are strictly better than the ones Bing delivers. Disconnect being more a meta search engine which allows users to choose between different search providers fell back to delivering Bing search results which were basically unacceptable quality-wise. Or a while now Disconnect has no access to Google search results anymore which we used in Tor Browser. In a note on what it dubs its “search engine situation” the pro-privacy browsing netTor users are currently being served DuckDuckGo search results by default.work confirms it is still using privacy tool Disconnect as its search provider but has asked it to switch to DDG results, owing to an issue with Disconnect’s access to Google’s search results. Tor users are currently being served DuckDuckGo search results by default.
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