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Who Decides What Websites You Visit?

Recently there’s been a lot of justified outrage over “fake news” and the fact that many people are living in an echo chamber online. Companies like Google use your profile to filter

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Device Privacy Tips

How To Protect Your Privacy On Android

You might also be interested in our privacy tips for iPhone. Follow these easy steps to protect the personal data on your Android devices, and don't forget that can include TVs and other

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Privacy Newsletter

Is Your Data Being Sold?

In our last blog post, we showed how to delete your Google Search History. This limits the information that Google has for its advertisers. But, they likely still have an advertising profile on

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Privacy Newsletter

Have You Deleted Your Google Search History Yet?

Recently we posted about how ads track you across the net and showed you how to save enough money to adopt a pony! #ChildhoodDream Unless you use a private search engine, like DuckDuckGo,

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Device Privacy Tips

How To Protect Your Privacy On iPhone

You might also be interested in our privacy tips for Android. Follow these easy steps to protect the personal data on your iPhone or iPad. 1. Lock your device with a passcode longer

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Privacy Newsletter

Are Ads Costing You Money?

Recently we posted how ads can track you across the net, but did you know that ads can actually cost you money?! Retailers are increasingly charging “personalized” or “dynamic” prices based on your

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Privacy Newsletter

Are Ads Following You?

Recently we wrote a post about how “private browsing” modes aren’t really private. They still let websites track you across the net. But why all this tracking? Let’s take the prime

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Privacy Newsletter

Tracking In Incognito?

It may surprise you that ads can still follow you around in “Incognito” and other “private browsing” modes. That’s because Incognito mode isn’t really private. Incognito mode only deletes your local

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DuckDuckGo News

2017 DuckDuckGo Donations: $300,000 to Raise the Standard of Trust Online

At DuckDuckGo, our vision is to raise the standard of trust online. To that end, for our seventh year we are making donations to organizations that share a similar vision. We are lucky

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DuckDuckGo News

DuckDuckGo SecureDrop

DuckDuckGo now operates a SecureDrop instance. SecureDrop is an open source project that enables people to share information with organizations as confidentially as possible. Freedom of the Press Foundation maintains the project and

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Privacy Research

Is Private Browsing Really Private?

At DuckDuckGo, our vision is to raise the standard of trust online. To that end, we surveyed 5,710 random Americans about Private Browsing to understand what people know about and how they

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DuckDuckGo News

10 Billion Private Searches & Counting!

At DuckDuckGo, our vision is to raise the standard of trust online, and in service of that vision, our mission is to be the world’s most trusted search engine. We are proud

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