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 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 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?
Privacy 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.
Privacy Newsletter 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.
Privacy Newsletter How to Be Even More Anonymous Online To protect your privacy online, we explain how Tor offers better anonymity than a VPN.
Privacy Newsletter 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.