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DuckDuckGo News

Private, Useful, and Optional AI: DuckDuckGo offers free access to popular AI chatbots at Duck.ai and expands AI-assisted answers on its search engine

DuckDuckGo’s approach to AI is to provide private, useful, and optional AI features – including chat and search instant answers – to people who want the productivity benefits of AI without the privacy risks.

  • Gabriel Weinberg
    Gabriel Weinberg
8 min read
DuckDuckGo News

2024 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1.1M to support digital rights, online privacy, and a better Internet ecosystem

2024 marks DuckDuckGo's 14th year of donations—our annual program to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online. We are proud to donate to diverse

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
7 min read
Opinion

Roadblocks to Competition: Investigate Google’s Non-Compliance with the EU’s Digital Markets Act

DuckDuckGo calls on the European Commission to launch three non-compliance investigations around Google’s obligations under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).

  • Kamyl Bazbaz
    Kamyl Bazbaz
7 min read
DuckDuckGo News

Investing in privacy-respecting companies that are raising the standard of trust online

With the core objective of supporting consumer privacy technologies, DuckDuckGo is now actively investing in early-stage companies as well as pursuing acquisitions and partnerships.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
2 min read
Opinion

Creating Enduring Competition in the Search Market

As a company that operates a search engine that directly competes with Google, we have several ideas about how to craft a set of legal and technical interventions that can, in combination, effectively curb the advantages Google has gained through illegal use of their search monopoly.

  • Gabriel Weinberg
    Gabriel Weinberg
9 min read
DuckDuckGo News

DuckDuckGo AI Chat: anonymous access to popular AI chatbots

DuckDuckGo AI Chat is an anonymous way to access popular AI chatbots – currently, GPT 3.5 Turbo, Claude 3 Haiku, and open-source models Llama 3 and Mixtral 7x8B, with more to come. This optional feature is free to use, within a daily limit.

  • Nirzar Pangarkar
    Nirzar Pangarkar
5 min read
DuckDuckGo News

Meet DuckDuckGo Privacy Pro: a 3-in-1 subscription service with VPN, Personal Information Removal, and Identity Theft Restoration

Privacy Pro bundles three new DuckDuckGo protections for one low price. Get a secure non-logging VPN; Personal Information Removal, which helps remove your information from people search sites; and Identity Theft Restoration, which helps to fix credit report mistakes and recover financial losses.

  • Gabriel Weinberg
    Gabriel Weinberg
9 min read
DuckDuckGo News

DuckDuckGo browser upgrade: Privately sync your bookmarks and passwords across devices

Sync bookmarks, passwords, and Email Protection settings between DuckDuckGo browsers on phones, tablets, and computers, privately and securely.

  • Tim Raybould
    Tim Raybould
4 min read
DuckDuckGo News

Great for Privacy, Great for the Environment: DuckDuckGo Is Now Carbon Negative

DuckDuckGo is now carbon negative dating back to our founding in 2008 through 2020, and is committed to being carbon negative in perpetuity.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
7 min read
DuckDuckGo News

2023 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1.1M to support privacy, competition, and digital rights

2023 marks DuckDuckGo's 13th year of donations— our annual program supporting organizations that are raising the standard of trust online.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
6 min read
DuckDuckGo News

Celebrating 15 Years of DuckDuckGo

Founder and CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, celebrates DuckDuckGo's past, present, and future.

  • Gabriel Weinberg
    Gabriel Weinberg
7 min read
Browser

DuckDuckGo Windows browser now available in public beta

Make the internet less creepy and less cluttered with our desktop browser for Windows—now in public beta! DuckDuckGo for Windows is fast, secure, and packed with the privacy protections you know and trust from our iOS, Android, and Mac browsers.

  • Peter Dolanjski
    Peter Dolanjski
5 min read
DuckDuckGo News

DuckDuckGo launches DuckAssist: a new feature that generates quick natural language summaries in response to search queries [UPDATE]

DuckDuckGo launches DuckAssist, an AI-enhanced Instant Answer that generates natural language answers to search queries using Wikipedia

  • Gabriel Weinberg
    Gabriel Weinberg
5 min read
DuckDuckGo News

2022 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1,100,000 to Privacy and Competition Organizations Around the World

2022 marks DuckDuckGo's twelfth year of donations—our annual program to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online. This year, we're proud to

  • Katie McInnis
6 min read

App Tracking Protection Beta is Now Available to All Android Users

Update: As of December 14, 2023 App Tracking Protection for Android is out of beta. * App Tracking Protection is now open for all Android users. It’s a beta feature in DuckDuckGo for

  • Robin Schlinkert
    Robin Schlinkert
5 min read
DuckDuckGo News

The wait is over: DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public!

The DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public! Enjoy browsing again with a fast, sleek browsing app that cleans up the web as you use it, thanks to DuckDuckGo’s unique built-in privacy protections.

  • Tim Raybould
    Tim Raybould
5 min read
Opinion

Privacy-Focused Technology Companies Call for a Floor Vote on Antitrust Legislation

13 privacy-focused technology companies representing more than 100 million users in the United States published a letter imploring the U.S. Congress bring the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) to a floor vote as soon as possible.

  • Katie McInnis
2 min read

Protect Your Inbox: DuckDuckGo Email Protection Beta Now Open to All!

* We’ve removed the waitlist for DuckDuckGo Email Protection, making the beta open for everyone to try. Get your @duck.com email address today! * DuckDuckGo Email Protection is a free email forwarding service

  • Omid Majdi
    Omid Majdi
7 min read
DuckDuckGo News

More Privacy and Transparency for DuckDuckGo Web Tracking Protections

Over the next week, we will expand the third-party tracking scripts we block from loading on websites to include scripts from Microsoft.

  • Gabriel Weinberg
    Gabriel Weinberg
4 min read
Search Preference Menus

New Search Engine Market Share Data from Cloudflare and Wikipedia

Two new sources of search engine market share data from Cloudflare and Wikipedia use more accurate methodology.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
4 min read
Search Preference Menus

10 Principles for Fair Choice Screens and Effective Switching Mechanisms

Choice screens and effective switching mechanisms are crucial tools that empower users and enable competition in the search engine and browser markets.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
3 min read
DuckDuckGo News

DuckDuckGo Chrome Extension Now Blocks Topics and FLEDGE, Google’s new Tracking and Targeting Methods

Google plans to automatically enable new tracking (Topics) and ad targeting (FLEDGE) in Chrome - block it with DuckDuckGo's Chrome Extension

  • Peter Dolanjski
    Peter Dolanjski
5 min read
DuckDuckGo News

Introducing DuckDuckGo for Mac: A Private, Fast, and Secure Browsing App

Privacy isn’t something you only need in certain situations or in partial amounts, and it’s a myth that you can’t have the same Internet you like and need, but with

  • Beah Burger-Lenehan
    Beah Burger-Lenehan
7 min read
Crash Course

How to Live Without Google: Alternatives That Protect Your Privacy

Google tracking is more pervasive than most people realize. We show you some alternatives to Google services to limit your exposure.

  • Dax the duck
    Dax the duck
5 min read
DuckDuckGo Q&A

Is DuckDuckGo a Good Search Engine?

DuckDuckGo Search gives you truly private search results without tradeoffs in result quality. We have everything you’ve come to expect in your online search experience, and a few bonus features that make searching the Internet not only private, but also faster and a bit more fun.

  • Gabriel Weinberg
    Gabriel Weinberg
5 min read
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