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Fireproofing is an explicit exemption mechanism that preserves first-party site cookies.
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...
’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 is a one‑click “burn everything recent” control that closes tabs and clears on‑device browsing data while integrating selective exceptions and other built‑in privacy tools, whereas a standard brows...
Forensic examiners can often infer which sites a mobile user has "ed" by extracting app storage from the device and examining residual artifacts such as the app's and the file; however, there is no si...
The “” is an on-device kill‑switch that quickly clears recent local and closes open tabs in the DuckDuckGo app, giving users a one‑click way to erase stored cookies, cache and history from the device ...
DuckDuckGo’s “Fireproof” feature intentionally exempts a site’s first‑party cookies and related site storage from the app’s one‑tap purge so users can stay signed‑in (DuckDuckGo Help) . Independent te...