Search engine and consumer privacy advocate DuckDuckGo has announced the “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019,” a piece of draft legislation that would legally require sites to honor users’ tracking preferences. Why we should care. As it stands, “Do-Not-Track” (DNT) is a voluntary signal sent by browsers, which means sites have the option of respecting or ignoring […]
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DuckDuckGo could be your new default search engine if you want to focus on privacy and security. What it’s like using it nowadays? You might have heard of DuckDuckGo in the past. Our first long post about it was back in 2016 with Rebecca Sentance trying out the new search engine for a week. Three
Google has reportedly introduced new options into the list of potential “default” search engines available to Chrome users. Most notably, DuckDuckGo has now become one of those options in 60 markets around the world. DDG joins the list. In the past users were always free to manually add alternatives to the existing choices, which included
DuckDuckGo’s Gabriel Weinberg. Screenshot. DuckDuckGo Founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg testified Tuesday morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee on online privacy. The committee was holding a hearing on GDPR, CCPA and potential U.S. privacy legislation. Contextual targeting vs. behavioral advertising. In prepared remarks Weinberg argued that “privacy legislation is not anti-advertising” and cited DuckDuckGo as
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DuckDuckGo is the little engine that could. The platform, which touts its ability to protect users’ privacy, recently said that it experienced surging year-over-year user traffic for 2018 and that it is already on pace for even stronger search usage in 2019. Also, Apple and DuckDuckGo formed a partnership to use Apple Maps as the
DuckDuckGo has hit a new record of 30 million daily direct searches. That represents a 50% increase from last year’s daily direct record of 20 million searches. Being an advocate of transparency, DuckDuckGo makes its traffic data publicly available. As you can see in the chart below, DuckDuckGo hit its new record traffic day on
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Not many startup search engines are successful. DuckDuckGo, however has defied the odds, and rocketed to star status in the search community. Why? Because according to The Verge, DuckDuckGo is “designed to be a less creepy and less invasive alternative to Google.” (It doesn’t track user behavior.) What’s more, DuckDuckGo is a part of iOS
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Last month, DuckDuckGo announced that it had exceeded 9 billion searches in 2018. That compares with 4 billion in 2016. By comparison, Google sees more than a trillion searches per year globally. Growing fast. DuckDuckGo’s popularity has grown as privacy has become a more significant issue over the past several years. According to the company,
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Last June, Apple launched MapKit JS for third-party developers and publishers as an alternative to Google Maps. Today DuckDuckGo announced it was adopting Apple’s MapKit JS framework for both desktop and mobile searches. All the features available in Apple Maps will now be available for local and map-based searches on DuckDuckGo. The company had been
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DuckDuckGo has responded to accusations that it uses browser fingerprinting to identify its users. These claims were made on the message board of security software company Whonix. “DuckDuckGo is using the Canvas DOMRect API on their search engine. Canvas is used to make unique geometry measurements on target browsers, and DOMRect API uses rectangles. This
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