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Limitations and potential issues with DuckDuckGo's data privacy policies
’s is a one‑click “burn everything recent” control that closes tabs and clears on‑device browsing data while integrating selective exceptions and other built‑in privacy tools, whereas a standard brows...
’s published stance is clear: it does not build personal profiles from users’ searches or browsing history for , and search ads are served based on the contents of the search results page rather than ...
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...
No public evidence shows has published a full, independent privacy audit specifically covering the core search engine; DuckDuckGo has published other audits and transparency materials (notably a 2024 ...
has publicly positioned itself as -aware and supportive of user privacy tools like (GPC), and its published policies and help pages explain how it handles data and user rights . The reporting provided...
DuckDuckGo says it designs its services so it does not collect or retain search or browsing histories tied to individual users and therefore cannot produce such records in response to legal demands li...
’s policy frames and logging around a simple promise: it does not keep search, browsing, or IP-identifying logs and only uses the minimum data needed to run optional features, with any temporary techn...
does not retain identifiable user search histories on its servers, but some data relevant to user experience—settings, bookmarklets, and data stored locally by DuckDuckGo apps or the browser—can persi...
receives es automatically from devices connecting to its service but says it uses them only transiently — for content delivery, bot detection and an anonymous GEO::IP lookup for localized results — an...
DuckDuckGo publicly asserts it does not have searchable user search or browsing histories to hand over in response to legal process, while its published policies show limited categories of user data i...
DuckDuckGo protects data stored locally through a mix of on-device encryption for sensitive items (passwords, bookmarks) and privacy-preserving local caches used by features like Smarter Encryption; w...
DuckDuckGo’s official materials consistently state that some data is stored locally on users’ devices for functionality and anonymity — for example, display settings, dismissed prompts, and subscripti...
DuckDuckGo presents itself as a privacy-first search provider but its transparency is constrained by partial openness and operational ties to Microsoft’s Bing, while Brave emphasizes full open-source ...
DuckDuckGo’s public documentation and extension listings state explicitly that the DuckDuckGo browser extension does not track users or collect personal data tied to individual identities, and the com...