Enjoy browsing again with an app that cleans up the web as you use it, thanks to DuckDuckGo's unique privacy protections. | Continue reading
Over the next week, we will expand the third-party tracking scripts we block from loading on websites to include scripts from Microsoft. | Continue reading
Two new sources of search engine market share data from Cloudflare and Wikipedia use more accurate methodology. | Continue reading
Privacy isn’t something you only need in certain situations or in partial amounts, and it’s a myth that you can’t have the same Internet you like and need, but with more privacy. At DuckDuckGo, we make privacy simple. For example, our mobile apps make privacy the default, | Continue reading
We spent 2021 strengthening our all-in-one privacy solution and helping people take back their privacy with one easy download. | Continue reading
Join the waitlist to try App Tracking Protection for Android today! | Continue reading
Join the waitlist to try App Tracking Protection for Android today! | Continue reading
2021 marks DuckDuckGo's eleventh year of donations—our annual program to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online. This year we're proud to donate to a diverse selection of organizations across the globe that strive for better privacy, d … | Continue reading
DuckDuckGo is now carbon negative dating back to our founding in 2008 through 2020, and is committed to being carbon negative in perpetuity. | Continue reading
We’re excited to announce the beta release of DuckDuckGo’s Email Protection. Our free email forwarding service removes email trackers and protects the privacy of your personal email address without asking you to change email services or apps. | Continue reading
We’re excited to announce the beta release of DuckDuckGo’s Email Protection. Our free email forwarding service removes email trackers and protects the privacy of your personal email address without asking you to change email services or apps. | Continue reading
We’re excited to announce the beta release of DuckDuckGo’s Email Protection. Our free email forwarding service removes email trackers and protects the privacy of your personal email address without asking you to change email services or apps. | Continue reading
Easy steps to protect your data on Linux such as Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch, etc. Use these steps to improve privacy and security. | Continue reading
Over the last 12 months, our apps have been downloaded more than 50M times, our search traffic increased 55%, we became the #2 search engine on mobile in U.S., Canada, Australia The Netherlands & other countries, and our estimated user count doubled to between 70-100 Million user … | Continue reading
Google has created a new tracking mechanism called FLoC, put it in Chrome, and automatically turned it on for millions of users. It's bad for privacy, which is why we're now blocking it in the DuckDuckGo extension. | Continue reading
To really stop cross-site trackers, you have to prevent them from actually loading in your browser, which is a critical blocking feature that we provide in our all-in-one privacy browser extension & mobile browser. | Continue reading
Google claims search competition is “only one click away.” So why does it take fifteen+ clicks to make DuckDuckGo Search or any other alternative the default on Android devices? | Continue reading
We're calling for a trilateral meeting among Google, the European Commission, and alternative search engines to address the many flaws in Google's preference menu for Android phones in the EU. | Continue reading
We're excited to announce a big step forward with the introduction of route-planning directions on DuckDuckGo Search – private, as always. | Continue reading
We're proud to announce the launch of Global Privacy Control (GPC), a new standard to put privacy protection in the hands of consumers. | Continue reading
Google's search preference menu auction, as we predicted, has resulted in DuckDuckGo being eliminated, making it harder for people to get simple privacy. | Continue reading
New in iOS 14, Apple now allows people to set certain browsers as the default browser (other than Safari), and DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser is now an approved default browser. | Continue reading
How to increase competition in the search engine market? Our new research shows that 24% of people in the US, 24% in the UK & 17% in Australia would choose a non-Google search engine when given the chance to express their preference on their mobile phones. | Continue reading
It has become commonplace to find free USB charging stations in many public areas, from airports to hospital waiting rooms. While this seems like a thoughtful accommodation, a quick recharge from a USB port in a public setting could actually put your data at risk of being stolen. | Continue reading
We’re proud to be profitable without making your personal information the product. Here's how we make it work (and how other companies can, too). | Continue reading
As a remote-first Internet privacy company, we firmly believe that working outside of a traditional office setting should not compromise your privacy. To that end, we’ve rounded up privacy-respecting tools, and important settings, that you can confidently utilize while you’re wor … | Continue reading
DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar is a best-in-class, automatically-generated data set about trackers that we've made available for research and generating block lists. | Continue reading
A detailed look at how DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption protects your privacy. Pinterest is now using the technology, and the code is now open source. | Continue reading
We're delighted to announce that DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials is now available for Safari users, helping even more people get the privacy they deserve. | Continue reading
We're excited to share several improvements to DuckDuckGo Search that should make your searching not only more effective, but also a more pleasant experience. | Continue reading
We've just launched DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly, a curated newsletter to highlight important privacy developments & share reliable advice to protect yourself. | Continue reading
Earlier this year we announced that we're using Apple's MapKit JS framework to power our mapping features. Today, we're excited to show you some new improvements. | Continue reading
Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are using the "Do Not Track" browser setting and yet most all sites ignore it. We're proposing draft legislation that can serve as a starting point to fix this unfortunate reality. | Continue reading
With 22 co-signers, we're sending a letter of support for the Privacy for All Act of 2019 to the Privacy Committee of the California Assembly, to strengthen CCPA. | Continue reading
Most browsers have a "Do Not Track" setting which sends "a special signal to websites, analytics companies, ad networks, plug in providers, and other web services you encounter while browsing, to stop tracking your activity." Sounds good, right? Sadly, it’s not effective. | Continue reading
We're excited to announce that map and address-related searches on DuckDuckGo for mobile and desktop are now powered by Apple's MapKit JS framework. | Continue reading
At DuckDuckGo, ethical design is simply... "design." It's part of our mission to set a new standard of trust online, empowering people to take control of their info. All roles are focused on an ethical way forward and this is how we do it. | Continue reading
Does Google show you different search results based on your personal info, even when signed out and in so-called "incognito" mode? We ran a study to find out. | Continue reading
As Facebook usage wanes, messaging apps like WhatsApp are growing in popularity as a "more private (and less confrontational) space to communicate." That shift didn't make much sense to us because both services are owned by the same company, so we tried to find an explanation. | Continue reading
Despite Private Browsing being one of the most commonly known and used privacy features, most people misunderstand the privacy protections it provides. | Continue reading
Some still wonder: “Why should I care? I have nothing to hide.” We take a moment to explain three key reasons why that argument against privacy is flawed. | Continue reading
We're excited to share the results of the DuckDuckGo Privacy Challenge Crowdfunding Campaign! | Continue reading