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DuckDuckGo's privacy and security features, including its ability to block trackers and protect user data
DuckDuckGo provides many of the same core privacy protections across its mobile apps and its newer desktop offerings—blocking third‑party trackers, enforcing HTTPS, and offering a one‑tap "Fire" butto...
DuckDuckGo advertises active fingerprinting protections: it overrides many browser APIs to return no or less-useful values and layers those changes with tracker- and cookie-blocking features intended ...
DuckDuckGo’s protections rely on a mix of DNS-level blocklisting for known scam/malware domains and separate tracker-blocklists used in apps and extensions; the DNS Scam Blocker refuses to resolve blo...
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...
DuckDuckGo’s browser extension is designed to block trackers and improve search privacy, but there is no evidence in the provided reporting that the DuckDuckGo browser extensions turn on encrypted DNS...
DuckDuckGo’s mobile browser bundles a range of built-in anti-tracking and privacy conveniences — a private search engine, tracker blocking, forced HTTPS, cookie and fingerprinting protections, and qui...
DuckDuckGo’s publicly available developer-facing material for password storage is spread across its Help Pages and an open-source Autofill repository on GitHub, with product write-ups by outlets like ...
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials offers a straightforward, all‑in‑one privacy add‑on focused on tracker blocking, HTTPS enforcement and search privacy aimed at non‑technical users, while uBlock Origin is...
The desktop browsers that deliver the strongest out‑of‑the‑box protections that align with DuckDuckGo’s tracker‑blocking approach are the DuckDuckGo standalone browser itself and mainstream browsers a...
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 has been accused — in reporting and by security researchers — of allowing advertising trackers from partners (notably Microsoft) to bypass its tracker blocks in its Privacy Browser, which c...
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 has publicly reframed parts of its privacy posture during 2024–2025, emphasizing stateless request handling and rolling out a 2025 tracking-policy refresh that focuses on stronger encryptio...