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DuckDuckGo AI Chat

Privacy-focused chatbot intermediary

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Dec 13, 2025
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How to enable DuckDuckGo’s Fire Button and what does it remove on iOS 17?

DuckDuckGo’s Fire Button on iOS clears local browsing traces — cookies, website caches, favicons, open tabs, back‑button history, visited URLs and granted permissions — and can now optionally delete D...

Jan 25, 2026
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does duck.ai keep users private and can users be tracked even if they use tor

positions itself as a : it routes user prompts through as a proxy, avoids requiring accounts, keeps chats local in the browser, and says it does not record or use chats to — with underlying model prov...

Dec 14, 2025
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How do I enable DuckDuckGo Fire Button in the iOS 17 DuckDuckGo app and Safari?

DuckDuckGo’s iOS app includes a prominent “Fire Button” that clears tabs, cookies, caches and site permissions; Apple’s App Store notes that recent updates let the Fire Button also delete Duck.ai chat...

Dec 21, 2025

How does DuckDuckGo’s Fire Button interact with iOS background app behavior and when exactly is data fully cleared?

The DuckDuckGo Fire Button clears local browser data such as cookies, cache, and tabs from the app’s own storage when invoked, and can now be configured to also delete Duck.ai chat history (DuckDuckGo...

Jan 24, 2026

How do Duck.ai’s contractual limits with model providers interact with government legal process for chat data?

places contractual limits on the model providers it uses — promising , a prohibition on using Prompts/Outputs to train models, and deletion of chat data "at most within 30 days" — but those contractua...

Jan 24, 2026

What specific metadata does Duck.ai strip before forwarding chats, and can forensic techniques re-link anonymized requests to users?

advertises that it removes personal identifiers — explicitly citing and other — before proxying prompts to third‑party model providers ( help pages; ; ) . Independent , however, shows many avenues out...

Jan 26, 2026

Have independent audits verified Duck.ai's metadata‑stripping claims and can those audits be publicly reviewed?

loudly states that strips personally identifying metadata such as IP addresses before forwarding prompts to model providers, and multiple tech outlets have repeated or summarized that claim based on c...

Jan 29, 2026

How does Duck.ai anonymize and proxy prompts to external models in technical detail?

anonymizes and proxies user prompts by acting as a trusted intermediary that strips identifying metadata (notably IP addresses), forwards requests from -owned infrastructure to third‑party model provi...