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Methods used by browsers to track user activity
DuckDuckGo’s mobile apps and browser extensions are designed to avoid storing users’ search queries and to block third-party trackers by default, with the company repeatedly stating it “doesn’t save o...
Browser vendors ship varying default privacy features while third-party tools like DuckDuckGo offer a bundled extension/app model that layers protections; the trade-offs are control, technical scope, ...
is an umbrella term for on‑page technologies—scripts, pixels, cookies and more—used to collect data about a user’s interactions; cookies are one specific, long‑established kind of tracker, typically s...
There is no singular, widely publicized independent audit that cleanly validates all of DuckDuckGo’s data‑retention and no‑tracking claims; reporting is mixed — some independent security audits and re...