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DuckDuckGo provides built-in protections via browser apps and extensions that block many third-party trackers.
in the mobile browser is a user-controlled exception that keeps a site's first‑party cookies and local storage from being erased when the browser's one‑tap "" clears browsing data, allowing users to r...
’s is a selective exception to the browser’s one‑tap “Fire Button” data purge: sites placed on the Fireproof list retain certain first‑party artifacts so users stay signed in and site features continu...
’s demonstrably block a large share of third‑party trackers and third‑party cookies in real‑world testing and in DuckDuckGo’s own engineering descriptions, and independent reviewers have reported both...
’s browser and extensions block a large swath of third‑party trackers by preventing many tracking scripts from loading and by applying cookie and protections, a posture the company says “greatly excee...
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...
prevents targeted ads and third‑party trackers primarily by blocking tracking requests before they load, limiting cookie lifetimes when blocking would break sites, and offering app‑level protections t...
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’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...
prevents search providers from linking queries to identifiable users primarily by minimizing the data it collects, anonymizing what little it uses (like GeoIP), and routing traffic in ways that avoid ...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
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...
’s browser, extensions, and private search substantially reduce third-party tracking on pages and can encrypt connections where possible, but they do not and cannot fully stop "ISP-level" tracking on ...
Public reporting and ’s own documentation show the company applies similar anti- strategies in both its mobile app and desktop browser extension—blocking many third‑party trackers, preventing fingerpr...
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...