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DuckDuckGo's lack of a recent, comprehensive, formal privacy audit
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 ...
loudly states that strips personally identifying metadata such as IP addresses before forwarding prompts to model providers, and multiple tech outlets have repeated or summarized that claim based on c...
The available reporting catalogs many “” search engines—, , , , , , , and others—but the pieces supplied do not document of those engines’ core privacy claims; reviewer tests and site descriptions are...
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...
Known independent assessments and disclosures have tested elements of DuckDuckGo’s privacy and encryption posture: a widely reported third‑party audit in 2022 that flagged a Microsoft-related “data fl...
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...
Reporting about since 2022 centers on two related claims: that the company’s products sometimes allowed telemetry or third‑party trackers to communicate with domains, and that DuckDuckGo’s marketing o...
There is no singular, widely publicized independent audit that cleanly validates all of DuckDuckGo’s data‑retention and no‑tracking claims; reporting is mixed — some independent security audits and re...
DuckDuckGo has published at least one formal, third-party security audit for its VPN service carried out by Securitum in October 2024, but the public record in the supplied reporting contains no equiv...