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DuckDuckGo provides built-in protections via browser apps and extensions that block many third-party trackers.
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...
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 blocking is designed for simplicity and tracker‑first privacy, and in head‑to‑head empirical summaries it tends to remove many tracker‑based ads but leaves more contextual or fir...
DuckDuckGo maintains curated, app- and extension-focused tracker blocklists and uses them to stop many third-party requests before they load, mitigate CNAME cloaking, and apply additional protections ...
Independent verification of DuckDuckGo’s tracker‑blocking across platforms is uneven: there is an ecosystem of third‑party reviews and a publicly released Tracker Radar data set that researchers can u...
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...
DuckDuckGo’s tracker blocklists and Tracker Radar aim to identify and stop trackers that “use browser APIs” or “use fingerprinting” as third parties, and the company says it both blocks many fingerpri...
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...