Together they form a tight digital advertising duopoly, showing no signs of abating.
These echo chambers distort people's reality, creating a myriad of unintended consequences such as increasing societal polarization.
On their unending march to profit from more and more personal information, Google and Facebook have shown little regard for all the negative consequences of their runaway algorithms.
Congress and federal agencies need to take a fresh look at what can be done to curb these data monopolies.
DuckDuckGo found that about a quarter of American adults are already taking significant actions to take back their privacy.
I can say from my own experience, you can indeed live Google and Facebook free.
Commentary by Gabriel Weinberg, CEO and founder of DuckDuckGo, which makes online privacy tools, including an alternative search engine to Google. »