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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.

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

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.

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

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,

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.

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

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

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

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

DuckDuckGo News

10 Billion Private Searches & Counting!

At DuckDuckGo, our vision is to raise the standard of trust online, and in service of that vision, our mission is to be the world’s most trusted search engine. We are proud

DuckDuckGo Q&A

Is there a simple privacy law that actually makes sense?

Yes! Despite all the protestations you hear from Big Tech, there is a simple privacy law that makes sense without destroying the tech industry. Let me explain, but first, for context if you’

Español

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.

Opinion

What if We All Just Sold Non-Creepy Advertising?

The big ad-tech companies know how to sell ads without damaging privacy, but they choose not to.

DuckDuckGo Q&A

What are the biggest tracker networks and what can I do about them?

When you visit a website, you are of course observable by the site itself, but you are also observable by third-party trackers that the site embeds in its code. You might be surprised

DuckDuckGo Q&A

How Does DuckDuckGo Know Where I Am?

Searching the web with DuckDuckGo is completely anonymous, yet we're also able to serve you localized results, such as the weather. Here's how we do it.

DuckDuckGo Q&A

How Does the DuckDuckGo App/Extension Protect My Privacy?

Our app & extensions include built-in tracker blocking, smarter encryption, Privacy Grade website ratings, and, of course, private search – all in one.

DuckDuckGo Q&A

How Many People Use DuckDuckGo?

You may find it surprising to learn that we don’t know how many people use DuckDuckGo!

Translations

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.

Translations

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.