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Comparison of DuckDuckGo and Google's transparency reporting and data collection practices.
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...
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 ...
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 publishes transparency and regulatory reports and positions itself as privacy-focused, but the supplied reporting does not include a clear, sourced count of “warrant or content requests” fo...
The publicly available reporting and DuckDuckGo’s own documentation do not publish a side‑by‑side telemetry manifest that declares different telemetry behaviors for the Chrome, Firefox, and Safari ext...
There are no publicly documented court cases in the provided reporting that show DuckDuckGo formally resisting government data requests; instead, the company’s public posture is a policy claim that it...
DuckDuckGo’s public posture on transparency is fundamentally different from Google’s: DuckDuckGo emphasizes a minimal-data architecture and privacy promises that, by design, leave little user-level da...