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If your goal is to find adult websites via DuckDuckGo, start by checking DuckDuckGo’s Safe Search setting and set it to “Off” or “Moderate” as needed — DuckDuckGo documents how to adjust Safe Search f...
DuckDuckGo is an independent, privately owned company and is not owned by Microsoft — DuckDuckGo itself states it has been independent since 2008 and summaries of its company history repeat that fact ...
Browser and OS-level bugs have repeatedly allowed attackers to bypass Tor and learn a user’s real IP — a notable example is the 2017 “TorMoil” flaw that could cause Tor Browser on macOS and Linux to c...
DuckDuckGo publicly acknowledged a contractual carve-out in its Microsoft search syndication agreement that, until August 2022, prevented the company’s browser and extensions from blocking some Micros...
DuckDuckGo has had a commercial relationship with Microsoft that affected how its browser handled Microsoft-owned tracking scripts: DuckDuckGo acknowledged a “search syndication” or ad partnership tha...
Brave, a U.S.-based browser company founded in 2015 and built on Chromium, has publicly engaged with governments as an advocate for stronger ad-blocking and privacy protections, but the reporting prov...
Technical signals that vendors and analysts use to judge whether a card dump on darknet forums is real include: automated verification/validation checks reported by markets, freshness and expiration-d...
The January 2026 “Epstein files” and associated document dump produced a mix of verifiable threads and unverified tips; journalists and some affected individuals have independently corroborated a hand...
DuckDuckGo is an independent company and not a Microsoft app, but it has had contractual ties with Microsoft that affected how its browser handled Microsoft-owned trackers; those ties involved ad and ...