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DuckDuckGo's claim of not tracking users and its limitations due to third-party trackers and embedded services
DuckDuckGo’s Fire Button is a one-tap purge designed to erase browsing traces such as cookies, caches, open tabs, and permissions, but it intentionally does not remove certain user-chosen data — notab...
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 ...
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’s official materials consistently state that some data is stored locally on users’ devices for functionality and anonymity — for example, display settings, dismissed prompts, and subscripti...