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?
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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