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DuckDuckGo's browser and extensions emphasize default privacy settings, blocking third-party trackers and offering tools to clear local data.
’s browser and extensions block a large swath of third‑party trackers by preventing many tracking scripts from loading and by applying cookie and protections, a posture the company says “greatly excee...
publicly states it does not retain individual users’ search queries or any data that would allow it to create a history tied to an identified person, and its privacy policy repeatedly emphasizes that ...
Completely erasing locally stored passwords in the DuckDuckGo mobile browser requires using the app’s data-clearing controls and understanding that passwords and identities are stored on-device (so re...
DuckDuckGo’s browser extension is designed to block trackers and improve search privacy, but there is no evidence in the provided reporting that the DuckDuckGo browser extensions turn on encrypted DNS...
’s VPN and related privacy products route DNS queries to DuckDuckGo-operated DNS servers by default and apply a to block harmful sites . The assembled reporting provided does not state whether those D...
DuckDuckGo has published at least one formal, third-party security audit for its VPN service carried out by Securitum in October 2024, but the public record in the supplied reporting contains no equiv...
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials is offered as a browser extension on both Chrome and Firefox and supplies core protections — tracker blocking, smarter encryption, and private search integration — across...
DuckDuckGo says it has continued to shrink the data surface it collects by moving processing into the client, tightening what leaves the browser, and changing which third parties are called from the b...