We have found that competition is not working well in these markets, leading to substantial harm for consumers and society as a whole.

Publication of interim report and consultation on whether to make a market investigation referenceĭeadline for responses to the invitation to commentĪny media enquiries should be directed to Final reportġ July 2020: We have published the final report of our market study into online platforms and digital advertising. At the moment, seems you can have great search results (say, from Google) or great privacy (from DDG) but not both.Publication of final report and decision not to make a market investigation reference co.uk So it's a very private search engine, and the security essentials add-on blocks a lock of trackers - great. When I turn on the UK regional filter in DDG, nothing changes: the !a bang still directs my searches to. Except that it searches which is of very little use to me.

For example, using the !a facility to directly search Amazon is great. In fact I'd say that the UK regional filter seems almost pointless - it doesn't seem to affect the results that I get at all, on most occasions. Living in the UK, even with the UK filter enabled, means that I'm getting mostly irrelevant results since the search engine seems to have a very strong USA bias.

Top marks for privacy and the privacy essentials plug in for Safari is excellent - it means I can get pretty much the best of both worlds - a very good level of privacy whilst still enjoying the many benefits of Safari on a Mac.

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