Opinion Search Preference Menus: No Auctions Please As Google’s search preference menu for Android goes live in the EU, sadly search options are decided by a Google-designed pay-to-play auction, prioritizing their profits over your choices. Here's why the auction model should be thrown out.
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.
Privacy Research The Hidden Privacy Risk in Note-Taking Apps Saving private information to an unencrypted note-taking app is a largely unknown, everyday privacy risk that almost half of Americans are engaging in. Here's what you can do to protect yourself.
Opinion Search Preference Menus: Improving Choice With Design Google’s search preference menu for the European Union is designed in a way that undercuts the very reason it was created, making it harder than necessary for people to choose a non-Google search engine alternative. We propose user-tested design improvements.
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.
Privacy Research Search Preference Menu Immediately Increases Google Competitors’ Market Share by 300-800% Could a search engine preference menu significantly increase competition in the search market? We conducted research to find out.
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.
Privacy Research New DuckDuckGo Research Shows People Taking Action on Privacy The results of our latest research are clear: not only are privacy concerns widespread, but people are taking real actions to protect their privacy online.
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.
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.
Privacy Research Call for Change: People Want Stronger Privacy Laws To gauge public sentiment towards privacy & the law, we conducted a survey of U.S. adults. The results clearly show strong support for legislative privacy protections.
Opinion The Do-Not-Track Act of 2019 Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are using the "Do Not Track" browser setting and yet most all sites ignore it. We're proposing draft legislation that can serve as a starting point to fix this unfortunate reality.
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!
Opinion Three Reasons Why the "Nothing to Hide" Argument is Flawed As Internet privacy has become more mainstream, this argument is rightfully fading away. However, it’s still floating around and so we wanted to take a moment to explain three key reasons why it's flawed.
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!
Privacy Research A Majority of Americans Don't Know That Facebook Owns Instagram In a survey of random U.S. adults, we found approximately half of Americans do not know that Facebook owns Instragram or Google owns YouTube.
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
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!
Privacy Research What Do Security Certificates Actually Do? Together with encryption, security certificates are essential to securely send data over the Internet. Here's how they work.
Privacy Research What Does a Secure Web Connection Actually Do? Many websites use "https://" at the beginning of their address rather than "http://". But what protection does that give you? How much of your surfing data is secure?
Opinion Data Privacy Day 2018: Live Free of Facebook and Google Tracking If you're going to make real progress in your data privacy this year, you must do something about your Google and Facebook use. Here's why and how.
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.
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.
Privacy Research Privacy is Mainstream: 24% of Us Now Take Significant Actions to Protect Our Privacy 24% of the population currently cares deeply enough about their online privacy to take significant actions to try to protect it.
Crash Course How to Check Whether Your Web Connection's Secure Without a secure web connection, eavesdroppers can see what you're browsing. We show you how to make sure you're protected.