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DuckDuckGo's reliance on third-party partners for search results

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Jan 13, 2026
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What privacy protections does DuckDuckGo offer for mobile apps versus desktop?

DuckDuckGo provides many of the same core privacy protections across its mobile apps and its newer desktop offerings—blocking third‑party trackers, enforcing HTTPS, and offering a one‑tap "Fire" butto...

Jan 11, 2026
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Are there public examples of DuckDuckGo rejecting law enforcement requests?

DuckDuckGo publicly positions itself as a company that has little or no user-search data to hand over and therefore does not receive ordinary search-related law enforcement requests, a stance repeated...

Jan 13, 2026
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What evidence exists about DuckDuckGo’s Microsoft partnerships and their practical impact on tracker exposure in the DuckDuckGo browser?

A clear record of reporting and company statements shows DuckDuckGo’s commercial relationship with Microsoft created a measurable exception in its tracker-blocking behavior on browsers in 2022, a gap ...

Jan 19, 2026

Does DuckDuckGo have any partnerships with Google or Alphabet subsidiaries?

DuckDuckGo is independent and not owned by Google or Alphabet, and the company explicitly states it has no relationship with Google for search results . While DuckDuckGo maintains partnerships with va...

Jan 6, 2026

Are there differences in telemetry between DuckDuckGo extension versions for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari?

The publicly available reporting and DuckDuckGo’s own documentation do not publish a side‑by‑side telemetry manifest that declares different telemetry behaviors for the Chrome, Firefox, and Safari ext...