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Online anonymity

Using a VPN does not guarantee true anonymity due to potential misconfigurations and provider logs.

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Jan 22, 2026
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Differences in search history handling between DuckDuckGo and Safari?

’s public positioning is that it does not track users or retain identifiable search histories, and its mobile Privacy Browser offers one‑tap clearing of tabs, cookies and history . provides built‑in p...

Jan 24, 2026
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How do Duck.ai’s contractual limits with model providers interact with government legal process for chat data?

places contractual limits on the model providers it uses — promising , a prohibition on using Prompts/Outputs to train models, and deletion of chat data "at most within 30 days" — but those contractua...

Feb 4, 2026

How does a VPN technically hide my IP address from websites and ISPs?

a device’s real IP address by encrypting the device’s traffic and routing it through a remote VPN server that uses its own IP when talking to websites and services . That same encryption prevents the ...

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