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DuckDuckGo is an independent company and not owned by Microsoft, despite having a commercial search and advertising partnership with Microsoft.
DuckDuckGo is primarily a privacy-focused search engine that does not itself maintain a desktop browser profile of cache and cookies, so on desktop platforms the task of securely wiping cache, cookies...
DuckDuckGo’s stated “no‑tracking” stance means it avoids linking searches to identifiable user profiles and blocks many third‑party trackers, offering largely the same results to all users and minimiz...
Using DuckDuckGo for searches reduces what DuckDuckGo itself can share—DuckDuckGo says it does not log or tie searches to IPs and does not save IP addresses to create histories , but Google can still ...
There are no widely accepted, publicly disclosed incidents showing DuckDuckGo suffered a classic data breach that dumped user records to attackers; instead reporting documents a series of privacy laps...
Bing has clawed back small but consistent gains over the past few years while Google’s iron grip has softened slightly from its decade-long highs, and DuckDuckGo has remained a small, steady privacy-f...
DuckDuckGo’s official materials and independent write-ups draw a clear line: the browser keeps most routine data on the user’s device — anonymous display flags, local settings, and any on‑device brows...
DuckDuckGo positions itself as a privacy-first search engine that, according to industry write-ups, “does not collect or store” personally identifiable user data and avoids building profiles for ad ta...
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...
DuckDuckGo is organized as a privately held, independent corporation—commonly referenced in public records as "Duck Duck Go, Inc."—with its founder Gabriel Weinberg retaining majority ownership alongs...
DuckDuckGo says it has continued to shrink the data surface it collects by moving processing into the client, tightening what leaves the browser, and changing which third parties are called from the b...
The publicly available reporting and DuckDuckGo’s own documentation do not publish a side‑by‑side telemetry manifest that declares different telemetry behaviors for the Chrome, Firefox, and Safari ext...