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> At what point did we stop taking people's word and commitment as valid?

At the point that they where caught violating privacy while claiming to respect it, and standing to make a profit off of violating it.

If I trusted people as blindly as people seem to trust DuckDuckGo, I would have trusted Google to not be evil and never have switched to DDG in the first place. This breach of trust destroys the whole point of using it, so I switched my default search to Searx between reading this submission and writing this (had been procrastinating the switch for a while and this was exactly the motivation I needed).