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Multiple news and opinion sites allege links between Rep. Ilhan Omar and a large Minnesota COVID-era child‑nutrition fraud that prosecutors say involved roughly $250 million in federal aid; those sour...
DuckDuckGo protects privacy primarily by blocking third‑party trackers, forcing HTTPS where available, offering a privacy‑focused search engine and optional browser/extension/ecosystem features that w...
DuckDuckGo blocks trackers using curated blocklists, request‑blocking (3rd‑Party Tracker Loading Protection), cookie and fingerprinting defenses, and an Android “App Tracking Protection” VPN‑style fil...
DuckDuckGo’s search engine itself “doesn’t track your searches or browsing history” . On iPhone the relevant steps therefore are twofold: clear data inside the DuckDuckGo app (tabs, local app data and...
DuckDuckGo’s browsers and extensions implement active fingerprinting protections: they override many browser APIs to return no or less-useful data and offer features like cookie protection, tracker bl...
DuckDuckGo the search engine says it does not track or store identifiable search histories; instead, the browser or app on your device and the desktop browser you use to visit duckduckgo.com are where...
As of 2025, Tor Browser, Firefox (with strict settings), Brave, and Safari are the desktop browsers most frequently cited as offering built‑in defenses against fingerprinting; Tor provides the stronge...
DuckDuckGo offers built-in controls in its mobile privacy browser to clear tabs, cache, cookies and saved searches via a Clear Data / Close Tabs + Clear Data flow and an Auto Clear Data timer; on desk...
DuckDuckGo’s Fire Button is a one‑tap tool that actively clears local browsing data (history, tabs, cookies and other local storage) inside the DuckDuckGo app, designed as an immediate privacy reset t...
DuckDuckGo’s Tracker Radar is an open, continuously crawled dataset that powers DuckDuckGo’s app and extension block lists and claims broad coverage of third‑party trackers; DuckDuckGo estimates top e...
Using DuckDuckGo search or its tracker-protection extension inside Safari is meaningfully different from running the DuckDuckGo browser app: the app enforces DuckDuckGo’s privacy features as defaults ...
Setting DuckDuckGo as your default search engine is a short process on most major desktop and mobile browsers: use each browser’s Settings → Search (or Manage search engines) and select DuckDuckGo, or...
DuckDuckGo’s privacy features are strongest when you use its own apps and browser across mainstream desktop and mobile platforms: DuckDuckGo offers dedicated apps for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android a...
DuckDuckGo does not store or link searches to your identity on its servers; any visible “history” is local to your device or browser and must be cleared there (DuckDuckGo policy; help pages and indepe...
Install a compact toolkit: an ad/tracker blocker (uBlock Origin or equivalent), a script/control tool (NoScript-style), a cookie auto-cleaner, a reputable password manager, and optional VPN/WebRTC lea...
Clearing history in DuckDuckGo’s standalone browser/app generally clears local session data and is paired with built-in tracker blocking, a Fire Button for instant cache wipes, and tighter default pri...
There are meaningful privacy differences between DuckDuckGo’s mobile app and desktop/browser-extension offerings, mostly in features and platform constraints rather than a single binary “more private”...
No mainstream browser can be credibly described as collecting "no" personal information; among widely reviewed options, the Tor Browser, Brave, and privacy-hardened Firefox variants consistently show ...
DuckDuckGo treats queries routed through Apple and common browser integrations with a consistent privacy-first posture: it offers tracker blocking, a per-link proxy to hide IPs, and browser extensions...
DuckDuckGo’s built‑in password manager stores and encrypts saved passwords and autofill data locally on the device rather than (by default) in a company cloud, and the company added an end‑to‑end encr...