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
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.
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 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
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.
Crash Course Are Ads Following You? We recently 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
Crash Course Tracking in 'Incognito' or Private Browsing Mode? It may surprise you that ads can still follow you around in “Incognito” and other “private browsing” modes. That’s because Incognito mode isn’t really private. Incognito mode only deletes your local
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