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.
Crash Course How to Be Even More Anonymous Online To protect your privacy online, we explain how Tor offers better anonymity than a VPN.
Crash Course How to Set Up Your Devices for Privacy Protection The more we rely on our computers and phones, the more personal data passes through them. Here's how to find information to protect privacy on your devices.
Crash Course How to Choose a Good VPN A Virtual Private Network (VPN) gives you some anonymity when browsing. Read these tips for choosing a provider.
Crash Course How to Live Without Google Google tracking is more pervasive than most people realize. We show you some alternatives to Google services to limit your exposure.
Crash Course How to Send Messages in Private There are times when we all want to chat in private. Here's how current technology can help you do just that.
Crash Course Privacy Mythbusting #1: Nobody else cares about privacy! (Umm, yes they do.) More and more people care about their online privacy. Not only that, more people are taking action to protect it.
Crash Course Are Ads Following You? Recently we wrote a post about how “private browsing” modes aren’t really private. They still let websites track you across the net. But why all this tracking? Let’s take the prime
DuckDuckGo Q&A What are the biggest tracker networks and what can I do about them? When you visit a website, you are of course observable by the site itself, but you are also observable by third-party trackers that the site embeds in its code. You might be surprised
DuckDuckGo Q&A Is it true that my ISP is spying on my web browsing? Does DuckDuckGo fix that? Yes, your ISP (Internet Service Provider) is likely spying on your web browsing, and yes, DuckDuckGo can help you significantly cut down on their ability to spy on you. Your ISP is the