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When serves search results it proxies requests to its partners and says it does not retain personal identifiers with search terms; partners (including for ads) receive proxied content and — in the cas...
DuckDuckGo has not partnered with Google on search or advertising and has repeatedly positioned itself as an independent, privacy-focused rival; DuckDuckGo’s help pages say “no relationship with Googl...
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 funds its operations primarily through , receiving search ad revenue (notably via Bing Ads) and referral fees from retailers like Amazon and eBay while asserting it does not collect or stor...
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...
DuckDuckGo does not use Google Analytics inside its own search product and says it only shares anonymous, non-identifying data with hosting/content providers; but independent studies show Google track...
Microsoft Advertising supplies the ad technology behind DuckDuckGo’s paid placements and, when a user clicks a Microsoft-provided ad on DuckDuckGo, that click is routed through Microsoft’s ad platform...