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DuckDuckGo’s most prominent recent controversy centers on reporting that its mobile browser allowed Microsoft-owned tracking scripts to run, prompting accusations that the company made an exception to...
DuckDuckGo has not been the target of major consumer privacy lawsuits in the sources provided, but it has faced public controversy and scrutiny over its data practices—most notably a 2022 revelation t...
A clear record of reporting and company statements shows DuckDuckGo’s commercial relationship with Microsoft created a measurable exception in its tracker-blocking behavior on browsers in 2022, a gap ...
DuckDuckGo is widely portrayed across recent reviews as a privacy-first search engine and browser that blocks many third‑party trackers, doesn’t build user profiles, and—as of mid‑2025—has no publicly...
Critics and researchers have repeatedly flagged occasions where DuckDuckGo’s privacy promises appeared weaker in practice — most notably a 2022 finding that Microsoft-owned tracking scripts could stil...
DuckDuckGo has faced a notable privacy controversy stemming from 2022 reporting that its browser and apps allowed some Microsoft-owned tracking scripts to run due to a search/ads syndication agreement...
DuckDuckGo faced criticism beginning in 2022 after researchers found its browser allowed Microsoft-owned tracking scripts to load, a behavior the company attributed to a search syndication agreement; ...
DuckDuckGo has published at least one formal, third-party security audit for its VPN service carried out by Securitum in October 2024, but the public record in the supplied reporting contains no equiv...
The clearest independent audit of DuckDuckGo’s tracker‑blocking after the 2022 controversy was done by privacy researcher Zach Edwards, whose analysis revealed a Microsoft‑related carve‑out and prompt...
DuckDuckGo publicly asserts a strict no-logs posture in its privacy policy and operational descriptions , and several outlets and reviewers report third‑party testing or audits of particular DuckDuckG...
Independent security researchers and at least one named privacy researcher have published analyses alleging that DuckDuckGo’s browser products transmit telemetry or data flows to Microsoft-owned domai...