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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.

  • Gabriel Weinberg
    Gabriel Weinberg
4 min read
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.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
4 min read
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.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
3 min read
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

  • Peter Dolanjski
    Peter Dolanjski
5 min read
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

  • Beah Burger-Lenehan
    Beah Burger-Lenehan
7 min read
DuckDuckGo News

DuckDuckGo in 2021: Building the Privacy Super App

We spent 2021 strengthening our all-in-one privacy solution and helping people take back their privacy with one easy download.

  • Gabriel Weinberg
    Gabriel Weinberg
5 min read
DuckDuckGo News

Introducing App Tracking Protection for Android: The easiest way to block most trackers lurking in your apps

Introducing App Tracking Protection for Android: The easiest way to block trackers lurking in your apps

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
5 min read
DuckDuckGo News

2021 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1,000,000 to Privacy and Competition Organizations Around the World

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

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
5 min read
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.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
7 min read
DuckDuckGo News

Introducing Email Protection: The easy way to block most email trackers and hide your address

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.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
4 min read
DuckDuckGo News

Millions Choose Simple Privacy Protection with DuckDuckGo

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 users.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
4 min read
Opinion

Search Engines Should be Able to Guide Consumers to Search Preference Menus

Consumers deserve a competitive search market where the search engines they want are actually “just one click away.”

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
3 min read
DuckDuckGo News

EFF Adopts DuckDuckGo HTTPS Dataset

We’re proud to announce EFF is switching to the DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption dataset in their HTTPS Everywhere extension, which automatically upgrades to secure website connections when possible.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
2 min read
DuckDuckGo News

Use the DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome

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.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
5 min read
Privacy Research

Most Browser Tracking Protection Doesn't Actually Stop Tracking by Default, but We Can Help

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.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
7 min read
DuckDuckGo News

Global Privacy Control (GPC) Enabled by Default in DuckDuckGo Apps & Extensions

Global Privacy Control (GPC), the setting exercising your legal right to opt-out of the sale & sharing of personal data, is now enabled by default in the DuckDuckGo app & extension.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
3 min read
DuckDuckGo News

Open Letter to European Commission: Request for Trilateral Meeting among Google, the EC, and Alternative Search Engines to Improve Search Preference Menu

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.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
1 min read
Opinion

Dear Google: We Agree Search Competition Should Be "Only 1 Click Away" – So Why Is It 15+ on Android?

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?

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
2 min read
DuckDuckGo News

Plan Your Route Privately: DuckDuckGo Now Has Driving & Walking Directions

We're excited to announce a big step forward with the introduction of route-planning directions on DuckDuckGo Search – private, as always.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
2 min read
DuckDuckGo News

DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control (GPC) Standards Effort

We're proud to announce the launch of Global Privacy Control (GPC), a new standard to put privacy protection in the hands of consumers.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
3 min read
Privacy Research

As Predicted, Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo

Google's search preference menu auction, as we predicted, has resulted in DuckDuckGo being eliminated, making it harder for people to get simple privacy.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
3 min read
DuckDuckGo News

New in iOS 14: Simple Everyday Privacy with DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser

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.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
3 min read
DuckDuckGo News

2020 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $750,000 to Organizations Around the World

In our tenth year of charitable donations, our continued growth has enabled us to increase our donations to $750,000.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
4 min read
Privacy Research

Google Search Mobile Market Share Likely to Drop Around 20% through Search Preference Menus

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.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
3 min read
Opinion

Search Preference Menus: Google Auction Ignores Screen Size and Scrolling

New data showing that restricting the number of search engine options in search preference menus is unnecessary and harmful to competition.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
4 min read
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