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DuckDuckGo News

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DuckDuckGo News

DuckDuckGo launches DuckAssist: a new feature that generates natural language answers to search queries using Wikipedia

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 donate to a diverse

  • 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
DuckDuckGo News

Better Privacy for Vivaldi Users, Thanks to DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar

We're delighted to announce the Vivaldi browser has incorporated DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar, resulting in easy, effective tracker protection for its users.

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

DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar Exposes Hidden Tracking

DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar is a best-in-class, automatically-generated data set about trackers that we've made available for research and generating block lists.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
8 min read
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.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
5 min read
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.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
2 min read
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