Big news today for iPhone and iPad users who are tired of the constant tracking, ad targeting, and manipulation on the Internet: #iOS14 (rolling out today) now allows you to set DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser as your default browser and search app. spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-pri…
This is a huge moment for privacy on iOS because it means for the first time users can make privacy the default while surfing the web, both through having our app open automatically when you click on links, and also directly from your home screen through new #iOS14 widgets.
Our mobile browser allows you to search & browse privately, including blocking trackers from loading (as opposed to just no cookies), using encryption on more sites, clearing data with one tap & more — all for free.
Our 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.
Don't want to use AI? No problem, we've made it optional by design. (1/6)
Now out of beta: Get free, anonymized access to popular chatbots at Duck.ai. Easily move from traditional search results – which now include more AI-assisted answers – to Duck.ai to continue your conversation. spreadprivacy.com/ai-feature-upg… (2/6)
Both and AI-assisted answers are free, no account required. We now serve millions of AI-assisted answers daily. If you opt to show them often in our traditional search results, you should see short sourced answers to your questions 20+% of the time. (3/6)Duck.ai
For everyone who's tired of having their personal data harvested and sold, here are 7 easy ways you can take back your privacy online. 👇 #DataPrivacyDay
1. Private Search
Your searches are anonymous and we never track you. duckduckgo.com
2. Private Browser
Search and browse more privately with the DuckDuckGo browser. Unlike Chrome and other browsers, we don't track you. duckduckgo.com/app
DuckAssist is live in our search results from within our DuckDuckGo browsing apps (iOS, Android, Mac, Windows) and browser extensions (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Edge). If this trial period goes well, we expect to roll it out to all search results (outside our apps) soon.
How it works:
If you ask a question in our search box that can be answered by Wikipedia, DuckAssist may appear and use AI natural language technology to anonymously generate a brief, sourced summary of what it finds — right above our regular private search results.
We believe online privacy should be simple and accessible to everyone. Period. Our Founder and CEO @yegg wrote about all the progress we made in 2021 making it easy for people to take back their privacy now with one download.
From improvements to search, tracker blocking, and our mobile app, to new features like Email Protection and App Tracking Protection, we're building a simple privacy layer for how people use the Internet today, without any tradeoffs. It’s privacy, simplified.
Product improvements have fueled our growth, making DuckDuckGo the most downloaded browsing app on Android in our major markets, #2 on iOS, and resulting in 150M+ downloads of our apps & extensions since 2018.
Google does this on purpose to block competition. There is no reason it should take 15+ clicks to set a new default search engine on Android. It is actually possible in 1 click with a properly designed search preference menu.
Google uses its browser/OS to maintain their dominance in the search market. Our search preference menu recommendation would increase search market competition by at least 20% through releasing pent-up demand due to Google’s anticompetitive tactics.
The Q4 2020 results of Google’s search preference menu auction have been released and, as we predicted, DuckDuckGo has been eliminated in most countries.
This EU antitrust remedy is rigged by Google, with its mobile market share still 97%. By contrast, our proposal could move its marketshare more than 20%.
Google designed the auction to box out alternative search engines that put people and their privacy ahead of profits. These are the alternatives people want to use the most and pose the biggest threat to Google's data-hungry surveillance business model.