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DuckDuckGo has faced criticism for allowing Microsoft trackers in some contexts, undermining its privacy promises
Yes—DuckDuckGo has a commercial syndication and advertising relationship with Microsoft that has been explicitly acknowledged by both companies and reported by multiple outlets; that agreement histori...
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 ...
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...
DuckDuckGo’s “Microsoft exception” was a limited carve-out in its browser and extensions that allowed certain Microsoft-owned tracking scripts to load on third‑party websites, a condition DuckDuckGo s...
’s 2022 search syndication relationship with created a narrow exception in its browser-level “third‑party tracker loading protection” that allowed certain Microsoft-owned tracking scripts to load on n...
removed a disclosed “” tracking exception that critics revealed in 2022 and expanded its tracker-blocking rules across mobile apps and browser extensions; the company says it renegotiated terms with M...
published a proof-of-concept thread in May 2022 showing that allowed certain to load and send data to while blocking other trackers, and multiple outlets reproduced his technical findings and screensh...
Yes. has been publicly criticized by multiple privacy researchers and advocates, most prominently after a 2022 disclosure that its mobile browser allowed -placed trackers to run on some pages — a reve...
DuckDuckGo responded to the 2022 disclosure of a Microsoft “carve‑out” by publicly pledging more transparency, expanding its tracker blocklist to include Microsoft scripts, and renegotiating the Micro...