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DuckDuckGo News

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DuckDuckGo News

Private, Useful, and Optional AI: DuckDuckGo offers free access to popular AI chatbots at Duck.ai and expands AI-assisted answers on its search engine

DuckDuckGo’s approach to AI is to provide private, useful, and optional AI features – including chat and search instant answers – to people who want the productivity benefits of AI without the privacy risks.

  • Gabriel Weinberg
    Gabriel Weinberg
8 min read
DuckDuckGo News

2024 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1.1M to support digital rights, online privacy, and a better Internet ecosystem

2024 marks DuckDuckGo's 14th year of donations—our annual program to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online. We are proud to donate to diverse

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
7 min read
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.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
2 min read
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.

  • Nirzar Pangarkar
    Nirzar Pangarkar
5 min read
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.

  • Gabriel Weinberg
    Gabriel Weinberg
9 min read
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.

  • Tim Raybould
    Tim Raybould
4 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

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.

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

Celebrating 15 Years of DuckDuckGo

Founder and CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, celebrates DuckDuckGo's past, present, and future.

  • Gabriel Weinberg
    Gabriel Weinberg
7 min read
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.

  • Peter Dolanjski
    Peter Dolanjski
5 min read
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

  • Gabriel Weinberg
    Gabriel Weinberg
5 min read
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

  • Katie McInnis
6 min read
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.

  • Tim Raybould
    Tim Raybould
5 min read
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

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

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
5 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
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
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
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