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Our free browser comes with seamless privacy protection built-in, including tracker blocking, increased encryption, email protection, and more, making it the most comprehensive privacy protection you can get with one download.
We made this chart to help you compare the privacy you’re getting now and how protected you can be. We’ve outlined which protections browsers and extensions offer by default without requiring you to change any settings, so you can decide which browser or extension is best for you.
- Bangs
- Instant Answers
- Duck.Com Email Protection
- App Tracking Protection For Android
- Cheatsheets
Bangs are undoubtedly the most practical feature offered by DuckDuckGo. They are shortcuts to the site search of specific websites and services. Simply put, you don't need to leave DuckDuckGo to search a particular website. Instead, just use its bang and get redirected to the search results page on that website for your query. Notably, for some ban...
Apart from giving you a list of relevant web pages for your search, DuckDuckGo can also offer direct answers to your queries. The site uses over 100 sources, so Instant Answers are available for a variety of queries. Simple things like calculations, a calendar, a stopwatch, what rhymes with a word, or factual information are obviously available. Bu...
DuckDuckGo's email protection feature can help you keep the embedded trackers in emails at bay. To use it, you need the official DuckDuckGo app or its extension in your browser. Once you've installed either, you can sign up for an @duck.com forwarding addressthat receives the emails on your behalf, strips the trackers, and then forwards them to a m...
App tracking protection is another DuckDuckGo feature that can improve your privacy. Exclusive to Android, it can curb the constant spying done by third-party trackersin the apps on your phone. Most of these trackers are from advertising companies like Google and Taboola, social media firms like Facebook and Twitter, and analytics firms like Adobe....
Cheatsheets are a somewhat lesser-known feature of DuckDuckGo, but it can be quite helpful in enhancing your productivity. It can help you find keyboard shortcuts for your favorite app and learn the basics of popular programming languages. All you have to do is type cheatsheetnext to a query for an app, language, or service, and DuckDuckGo will lis...
- DuckDuckGo is refreshing. DuckDuckGo’s privacy features surprised me with how liberating they feel. The service insists that it doesn’t collect user data or track you across different websites.
- DuckDuckGo has a good UI. Before I started using DuckDuckGo, I had this image of a bare-bones search engine, a la early 2000s Google. It proved me wrong.
- Yes, you can escape from ads. This kind of goes along with the first point on this list: Since DuckDuckGo doesn’t track your browsing history, it cannot provide you with targeted personalized ads.
- You’ll trade some search smarts for privacy. Google is great for finding things I just can’t quite remember. I enter a few random facts that I do remember, and it will usually will give me the answer.
May 1, 2021 · DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine that doesn't track you. This alternative to Google, Bing, and Yahoo is growing fast. Here's an introduction to DuckDuckGo and a look at how it protects your privacy.
DuckDuckGo never tracks you. And when you leave our search engine and use our browsers or extensions to browse other sites, we aim to protect your privacy as much as possible with multiple layers of privacy protections that are continually evolving to keep up with new tracking methods.
Feb 1, 2017 · DuckDuckGo describes itself as "the search engine that doesn't track you". It promises not to use cookies to follow users and says it doesn't collect any personal information on those...
