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That's true. Their business model is essentially selling users to search engines. That said, they have always done it quite softly by selling users to the search engine that most of them want to use anyway, and making it very easy for users to opt-out of that arrangement.


> they have always done it quite softly...

That would be because they're a non-profit working for the benefit of said users.




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