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The protection of personal information and online activities from unauthorized access.
generates most of its income from served through ad networks—largely Microsoft’s advertising platform—and from affiliate partnerships and ancillary privacy products; it is a privately held, for‑profit...
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...
Tor and VPNs both strengthen online privacy but solve different problems: Tor maximizes anonymity by routing traffic through multiple volunteer nodes, while VPNs provide faster, device‑wide encryption...
DuckDuckGo’s official materials and independent write-ups draw a clear line: the browser keeps most routine data on the user’s device — anonymous display flags, local settings, and any on‑device brows...
presents itself as a search provider that says it does not retain personal identifiers such as IP addresses, search histories, or device fingerprints and limits data use to anonymized trends or transi...
Law enforcement can compel Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to turn over user records using a range of legal tools that often do not require seizing a suspect’s devices: routine subpoenas and adminis...
’s policy frames and logging around a simple promise: it does not keep search, browsing, or IP-identifying logs and only uses the minimum data needed to run optional features, with any temporary techn...
Removing ’s (PIR) data, any DuckDuckGo bookmarklets, and saved app/browser settings requires a combination of in-app/subscription actions and conventional browser or OS cleanup: canceling the PIR subs...
Cyberlocker operators commonly expose download counters and traffic metrics, and many platforms can and do log HTTP/transfer events that indicate whether a file transfer reached completion on the serv...
DuckDuckGo’s official stance is clear: it does not save or “log to disk” IP addresses or unique identifiers alongside user searches or browsing history, and it says it only uses IP data transiently to...