This is wild. I mean, it isn’t surprising conceptually, but like…I got my first ever Amazon recall notice about this, and it is for something I surely bought between 2016 and 2018. Thing’s just sitting in my basement wishing it was getting charged and used. I guess I’ll need to run it to the dump.

Because* it lacks oversight

I mean, the ad services plugged into every website have already cross referenced each other and know who you are even if you use a service like DDG that supposedly doesn’t track. Incidentally, Kagi supposedly doesn’t track either, (which they’d better not since you’re paying them), so while it doesn’t mitigate the above issue of your being traceable by pure virtue of browsing the web, it certainly isn’t “tying your porn results to credit cards and search results.”

Switch to Kagi. It’s worth the money.