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Dax the duck

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Device Privacy Tips

How to Protect Your Privacy on Linux

Easy steps to protect your data on Linux such as Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch, etc. Use these steps to improve privacy and security.

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Device Privacy Tips

How to Protect Privacy on Windows 7

Easy steps to protect your data on Microsoft Windows 7. Use these steps to improve privacy and security.

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Device Privacy Tips

How to Protect Your Privacy on Windows 10

Easy steps to protect your data on Microsoft Windows 10. Use these steps to improve privacy and security.

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Device Privacy Tips

How to Protect Your Privacy on Mac

Easy steps to protect your data on macOS or Mac OS X. Use these steps to improve privacy and security.

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Crash Course

Who Decides What Websites You Visit?

Recently there’s been a lot of justified outrage over “fake news” and the fact that many people are living in an echo chamber online. Companies like Google use your profile to filter

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Device Privacy Tips

How to Protect Your Privacy on Android

Easy steps to protect your data on Android. Use these steps to improve privacy and security on your phone, tablet, TV and other devices.

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Crash Course

Is Your Data Being Sold?

In our last blog post, we showed how to delete your Google Search History. This limits the information that Google has for its advertisers. But, they likely still have an advertising profile on

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Crash Course

Have You Deleted Your Google Search History Yet?

Recently we posted about how ads track you across the net and showed you how to save enough money to adopt a pony! #ChildhoodDream Unless you use a private search engine, like DuckDuckGo,

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Device Privacy Tips

How to Protect Your Privacy on iOS (iPhone & iPad)

Easy steps to protect your data on iOS (iPhone and iPad). Use these tips to improve privacy and security on the go.

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Crash Course

Are Ads Costing You Money?

We recently posted how ads can track you across the net, but did you know that ads can actually cost you money?! Retailers are increasingly charging “personalized” or “dynamic” prices based on your

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Crash Course

Are Ads Following You?

We recently wrote a post about how “private browsing” modes aren’t really private. They still let websites track you across the net. But why all this tracking? Let’s take the prime

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Crash Course

Tracking in 'Incognito' or Private Browsing Mode?

It may surprise you that ads can still follow you around in “Incognito” and other “private browsing” modes. That’s because Incognito mode isn’t really private. Incognito mode only deletes your local

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DuckDuckGo News

2017 DuckDuckGo Donations: $400,000 to Raise the Standard of Trust Online

At DuckDuckGo, our vision is to raise the standard of trust online. To that end, for our seventh year we are making donations to organizations that share a similar vision. We are lucky

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DuckDuckGo VS Google: la guía definitiva

Compartes tus secretos más íntimos con tu buscador sin darte cuenta: asuntos médicos, económicos y personales, junto a otras cosas más corrientes que te definen como persona. Toda esa información personal debería ser privada, pero para Google, no lo es.

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Comme prévu, le mécanisme d’enchères de Google élimine DuckDuckGo

Le résultat des enchères du 4e trimestre 2020 sur le menu de préférence de Google pour les moteurs de recherche a été publié. Comme nous l’avions prédit (voir notre article précédent, en anglais), DuckDuckGo a été éliminé dans la plupart des pays.

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Wie zu erwarten war, eliminiert Googles Suchmaschinen-Auswahlmenü DuckDuckGo

Die Resultate von Googles Auktion zum Suchmaschinen-Auswahlmenü für Q4 2020 sind veröffentlicht und, wie durch uns vorhergesagt, wurde DuckDuckGo in den meisten Ländern eliminiert.

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