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DuckDuckGo News

Your Connection is Secure with DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption

A detailed look at how DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption protects your privacy. Pinterest is now using the technology, and the code is now open source.

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DuckDuckGo News

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials for Safari: Tracker Blocking & Privacy Dashboard

We're delighted to announce that DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials is now available for Safari users, helping even more people get the privacy they deserve.

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DuckDuckGo News

DuckDuckGo Search Improvements: Past Year Date Filter, Dark Theme Refinements, and More!

We're excited to share several improvements to DuckDuckGo Search that should make your searching not only more effective, but also a more pleasant experience.

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DuckDuckGo News

Introducing the DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly Newsletter

We've just launched DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly, a curated newsletter to highlight important privacy developments & share reliable advice to protect yourself.

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DuckDuckGo News

2019 DuckDuckGo Privacy Donations: $600,000 for Privacy Advocacy

In our ninth year of charitable donations, we've chosen the theme of privacy advocacy for 2019. Our continued growth has enabled us to increase our donations to $600,000.

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DuckDuckGo News

DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps for Enhanced Search With the Same Commitment to Privacy

Earlier this year we announced that we're using Apple's MapKit JS framework to power our mapping features. Today, we're excited to show you some new improvements.

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Opinion

24 Tech Companies Back CCPA Amendment to Make It Stronger: Privacy for All Act of 2019

With 23 co-signers, we're sending a letter of support for the Privacy for All Act of 2019 to the Privacy Committee of the California Assembly, to strengthen CCPA.

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DuckDuckGo News

Improved Weather Results on DuckDuckGo

We're pleased to announce we've given our weather results a revamp, making them more detailed and interactive, but still just as private!

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Opinion

DuckDuckGo Testimony Before the United States Senate

Testimony of Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo, before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee.

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DuckDuckGo News

2018 in Review: A Breakout Year for DuckDuckGo and Internet Privacy

We’re honored to share that 2018 was DuckDuckGo’s best year yet 👏. From where we stand, it was a breakout year for online privacy, the likes of which we haven't seen since the surveillance revelations of 2013.

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DuckDuckGo News

Ethical, by Design: How We Design With Your Privacy in Mind

At DuckDuckGo, ethical design is simply... "design." It's part of our mission to set a new standard of trust online, empowering people to take control of their info. All roles are focused on an ethical way forward and this is how we do it.

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DuckDuckGo News

DuckDuckGo Taps Apple Maps to Power Private Search Results

We're excited to announce that map and address-related searches on DuckDuckGo for mobile and desktop are now powered by Apple's MapKit JS framework.

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DuckDuckGo News

DuckDuckGo Partners with OMERS Ventures to Expand Canadian Presence and Global Impact

Today, we're announcing a partnership with OMERS Ventures (OV), part of the $95 Billion global OMERS pension fund, based in Canada. Their expertise, shared interest in privacy, and investment in DuckDuckGo will help us continue expanding our privacy protections across the globe.

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DuckDuckGo News

2018 DuckDuckGo Privacy Donations: $500,000 + $142,000 From You!

We're excited to share the results of the DuckDuckGo Privacy Challenge Crowdfunding Campaign!

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DuckDuckGo News

Default Private Search in Private Browsing Mode

DuckDuckGo and Vivaldi Partner on Private Browsing Mode. As regular readers of this blog will know, but sadly most people still do not, Private Browsing modes generally don’t prevent online tracking of

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DuckDuckGo News

Join the $500,000 DuckDuckGo Privacy Challenge Crowdfunding Campaign

We're donating half a million dollars to non-profits that share in DuckDuckGo's vision of raising the standard of trust online, and we need your help!

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DuckDuckGo News

Protecting Your Personal Data Has Never Been This Easy

We're excited to launch a new browser extension and mobile app, extending DuckDuckGo's protection beyond the search box to wherever the Internet takes you.

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DuckDuckGo News

Making Private Browsing Mode More Private

We've worked with Brave to offer the ability to easily enable private search within their private tabs.

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DuckDuckGo News

DuckDuckGo Grew 55% in 2017, Crossing 20 Million Private Searches a Day

As we start 2018, we're proud to look back on a banner year for DuckDuckGo with private searches up 55%.

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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 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

  • Gabriel Weinberg
    Gabriel Weinberg
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