For many years, websites have collected user data to either sell to third-party sites or use for their targeted advertising. The most well-known examples include Facebook and Google. Serving an ad or ...

If you're online, you're probably being tracked. Whether you're shopping, subscribing or scrolling on social media, companies ...

Google is far and away the most popular search engine—but sometimes it can feel more like Big Brother and less like a friendly assistant. Indeed, for those concerned about privacy, Google can overstep ...

In an exclusive interview, DuckDuckGo details its privacy-focused ad partnership with Microsoft, which aims to rethink digital marketing without compromising user privacy. DuckDuckGo earns revenue ...

His search engine didn’t start out as the private alternative to Google, but that’s certainly what it has become. Five years ago, DuckDuckGo.com founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg just wanted to create ...

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Tech company Apple considered switching its search engine from Google to a much less famous competitor. Apple had entered into negotiations to utilize the DuckDuckGo search engine for its Safari ...

If you care about online privacy, chances are that you’ve given up on Google as your preferred search engine. DuckDuckGo is one of the best alternative search engines in that regard as it pledges a ...

DuckDuckGo launched a beta version of an AI search tool powered by ChatGPT Wednesday called DuckAssist. The addition to the company’s privacy-focused search engine uses ChatGPT and Anthropic’s ...

If you’ve had enough of AI-generated images filling up your search results, then the DuckDuckGo search engine is here to help. The Pennsylvania-based company recently announced an easy way to filter ...