seems to be like day 2 of the advent.

from day 1: The world needs more search engines [1].

[1] https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-01/the-world-needs-cliqz-t...

Indeed, the idea is to use each day until Christmas to unveil a new post about search, privacy and security. Today is about opening a discussion about data collection practices. It's often presented as a "all or nothing" (more often than not it's "nothing"). But data is needed to create independent and viable alternatives to the giants so maybe there is a middle ground if it's done with privacy at heart from the ground up.

Edit: For those curious about the details, we've started a new page where we gather research, talks and blog posts from the past about these topics: https://0x65.dev/pages/dissemination-cliqz.html

> “What has Google ever done for us?”. They have done an awful lot for society, for the web and probably saved it a few times a long time ago. But it is time to also see them as the empire they have become. And empires must fall.

They were definitely involved in several precedent setting legal decisions, such as the settlement that allowed for scanning of printed works.