Search Engines Should be Able to Guide Consumers to Search Preference Menus

Consumers deserve a competitive search market where the search engines they want are actually “just one click away.” This is the ninth in our series of posts about search preference menus. Consumers deserve a competitive search market where the search engines they want are actually “just one click away.” A properly designed search preference menu […]
Millions Choose Simple Privacy Protection with DuckDuckGo

Over the last 12 months, our apps have been downloaded more than 50M times, our search traffic increased 55%, we became the #2 search engine on mobile in U.S., Canada, Australia The Netherlands & other countries, and our estimated user count doubled to between 70-100 Million users. DuckDuckGrowth over the last 12 months: 50M+ app […]
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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. At DuckDuckGo, we believe that everyone deserves simple online privacy protection. That’s why we pack our DuckDuckGo mobile apps and browser extensions with so […]
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. As yet another sign of how privacy is now completely mainstream, the major desktop browsers are stepping up their privacy promises. […]
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. Google has created a new tracking method called FLoC, put it in Chrome, and automatically turned it on […]
EFF Adopts DuckDuckGo HTTPS Dataset

DuckDuckGo is the “easy button” for online privacy. That’s why our apps have been downloaded more than 50 million times over the last 12 months, more than all prior years combined. HTTPS Everywhere extension by EFF now powered by Smarter Encryption from DuckDuckGo dataset. When using the DuckDuckGo all-in-one privacy browser extension for desktop Firefox, […]