DuckDuckGo News Investing in privacy-respecting companies that are raising the standard of trust online With the core objective of supporting consumer privacy technologies, DuckDuckGo is now actively investing in early-stage companies as well as pursuing acquisitions and partnerships.
Opinion Creating Enduring Competition in the Search Market As a company that operates a search engine that directly competes with Google, we have several ideas about how to craft a set of legal and technical interventions that can, in combination, effectively curb the advantages Google has gained through illegal use of their search monopoly.
DuckDuckGo News DuckDuckGo AI Chat: anonymous access to popular AI chatbots DuckDuckGo AI Chat is an anonymous way to access popular AI chatbots – currently, GPT 3.5 Turbo, Claude 3 Haiku, and open-source models Llama 3 and Mixtral 7x8B, with more to come. This optional feature is free to use, within a daily limit.
DuckDuckGo News Meet DuckDuckGo Privacy Pro: a 3-in-1 subscription service with VPN, Personal Information Removal, and Identity Theft Restoration Privacy Pro bundles three new DuckDuckGo protections for one low price. Get a secure non-logging VPN; Personal Information Removal, which helps remove your information from people search sites; and Identity Theft Restoration, which helps to fix credit report mistakes and recover financial losses.
DuckDuckGo News DuckDuckGo browser upgrade: Privately sync your bookmarks and passwords across devices Sync bookmarks, passwords, and Email Protection settings between DuckDuckGo browsers on phones, tablets, and computers, privately and securely.
DuckDuckGo News Great for Privacy, Great for the Environment: DuckDuckGo Is Now Carbon Negative DuckDuckGo is now carbon negative dating back to our founding in 2008 through 2020, and is committed to being carbon negative in perpetuity.
DuckDuckGo News 2023 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1.1M to support privacy, competition, and digital rights 2023 marks DuckDuckGo's 13th year of donations— our annual program supporting organizations that are raising the standard of trust online.
DuckDuckGo News Celebrating 15 Years of DuckDuckGo Founder and CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, celebrates DuckDuckGo's past, present, and future.
Browser DuckDuckGo Windows browser now available in public beta Make the internet less creepy and less cluttered with our desktop browser for Windows—now in public beta! DuckDuckGo for Windows is fast, secure, and packed with the privacy protections you know and trust from our iOS, Android, and Mac browsers.
DuckDuckGo News DuckDuckGo launches DuckAssist: a new feature that generates quick natural language summaries in response to search queries [UPDATE] DuckDuckGo launches DuckAssist, an AI-enhanced Instant Answer that generates natural language answers to search queries using Wikipedia
DuckDuckGo News 2022 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1,100,000 to Privacy and Competition Organizations Around the World 2022 marks DuckDuckGo's twelfth 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
App Tracking Protection Beta is Now Available to All Android Users Update: As of December 14, 2023 App Tracking Protection for Android is out of beta. * App Tracking Protection is now open for all Android users. It’s a beta feature in DuckDuckGo for
DuckDuckGo News The wait is over: DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public! The DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public! Enjoy browsing again with a fast, sleek browsing app that cleans up the web as you use it, thanks to DuckDuckGo’s unique built-in privacy protections.
Opinion Privacy-Focused Technology Companies Call for a Floor Vote on Antitrust Legislation 13 privacy-focused technology companies representing more than 100 million users in the United States published a letter imploring the U.S. Congress bring the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) to a floor vote as soon as possible.
Protect Your Inbox: DuckDuckGo Email Protection Beta Now Open to All! * We’ve removed the waitlist for DuckDuckGo Email Protection, making the beta open for everyone to try. Get your @duck.com email address today! * DuckDuckGo Email Protection is a free email forwarding service
DuckDuckGo News More Privacy and Transparency for DuckDuckGo Web Tracking Protections Over the next week, we will expand the third-party tracking scripts we block from loading on websites to include scripts from Microsoft.
Search Preference Menus New Search Engine Market Share Data from Cloudflare and Wikipedia Two new sources of search engine market share data from Cloudflare and Wikipedia use more accurate methodology.
Search Preference Menus 10 Principles for Fair Choice Screens and Effective Switching Mechanisms Choice screens and effective switching mechanisms are crucial tools that empower users and enable competition in the search engine and browser markets.
DuckDuckGo News DuckDuckGo Chrome Extension Now Blocks Topics and FLEDGE, Google’s new Tracking and Targeting Methods Google plans to automatically enable new tracking (Topics) and ad targeting (FLEDGE) in Chrome - block it with DuckDuckGo's Chrome Extension
DuckDuckGo News Introducing DuckDuckGo for Mac: A Private, Fast, and Secure Browsing App 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
Crash Course How to Live Without Google: Alternatives That Protect Your Privacy Google tracking is more pervasive than most people realize. We show you some alternatives to Google services to limit your exposure.
DuckDuckGo Q&A Is DuckDuckGo a Good Search Engine? DuckDuckGo Search gives you truly private search results without tradeoffs in result quality. We have everything you’ve come to expect in your online search experience, and a few bonus features that make searching the Internet not only private, but also faster and a bit more fun.
DuckDuckGo Q&A What Does Google Know About Me? Did you know that Google keeps your search history forever? That alone is scary, but it’s just a small part of the data they try to collect on people.
DuckDuckGo Q&A How Anonymous Is DuckDuckGo? Each time you search on DuckDuckGo, you have a blank search history, as if you’ve never been there before.
Privacy Research Is Private Browsing Really Private? At DuckDuckGo, our vision is to raise the standard of trust online. To that end, we surveyed 5,710 random Americans about Private Browsing to understand what people know about and how they
