DuckDuckGo’s Gabe Weinberg on how big Internet firms trample our privacy online

Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo. The no-tracking search site was founded in 2009. (Dave Justo Productions)

DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg is among the digital prophets warning us how Google, the Goliath he's been challenging for 10 years with his Paoli-based non-tracking search engine, and other giants of information are squeezing personal privacy and independent content: “If people are consuming all the Inquirer's stuff for free on Facebook or Google, it's a losing proposition for you.” 

Check out what's happened to FunnyOrDie.com, he said, which “just announced layoffs for half the staff. Facebook has taken their content and, with it, their audience, forcing them to pay to place their own new videos. And they keep increasing the price; it's prohibitively expensive. Your content goes viral, and you don't make any money.”