In this article, I’ll share everything I’ve scratched up about DDG. Does DuckDuckGo really give you “privacy, simplified”, or is it a lame duck? How does it offer its services for free if you’re not, in one way or another, the product?

After the Snowden NSA revelations and rising fears around surveillance capitalism, folks have been flipping Google the bird and flocking to the duck side in droves.īefore you join the mass migration, let’s find out if DuckDuckGo is all it’s quacked up to be. Remember all the weird and wonderful things you’ve Googled over time? You probably can’t, but Google can! Who wants their every random thought going on permanent record?Ĭue DuckDuckGo (DDG) – the playfully-named, privacy-focussed search engine. To our current understanding, this does not affect the DuckDuckGo search engine. You can find more details on this story here. DuckDuckGo claims this is the result of an agreement with Microsoft and that it’s working with the company to reduce these restrictions. These scripts collect various data, including user IP addresses, and send that data to Microsoft servers. Security researchers have discovered the DuckDuckGo Browser allows scripts from its ad partner Microsoft while websites are loading.

Privacy notice: Recent news reveals that the DuckDuckGo Browser may not be as private as everyone thought.

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