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.
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.
Privacy Research Most Browser Tracking Protection Doesn't Actually Stop Tracking by Default, but We Can Help To really stop cross-site trackers, you have to prevent them from actually loading in your browser, which is a critical blocking feature that we provide in our all-in-one privacy browser extension & mobile browser.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.