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Online tracking and surveillance

Protecting against online tracking and surveillance using tools like VPNs and encrypted connections

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Jan 14, 2026
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can anyone trace what you search with a vpn and duckduckgo

Using DuckDuckGo plus a VPN dramatically reduces who can link a search back to a specific person, but it does not create absolute anonymity: DuckDuckGo says it does not track or store searches , and a...

Feb 2, 2026

What info does duck duck go give websites

generally tries to minimize the information it passes to websites: it does not store users’ search histories or IP addresses and it implements protections that strip or reduce such as referrers, cooki...