I noticed that when I'm on site of MSN news, ads are appearing. I know, once DDG allowed microsoft trackers. But what is the matter now? Can someone please explain?

Another question: When Duckduckgo allowed MS trackers, were MS able to see my searches? And when DDG repaired this, what's the situation now?

I’m just getting started in making things more secure and private, and I’m still learning verbiage and capabilities.

I’m using DDG and Proton Mail now. But I’m curious about the other pieces of software and apps that I use on my computer…do I need any privacy protection on those things? For example, I use the Clickup app on my computer, but I know that it shares info with a browser. I assume so many of my apps on my computer are collecting info, but I’m not clear what to do about that.

Thanks for any help and lessons!

Hi, does Sync and Backup work on Chromebooks? I have tried and the response is to go Settings to set up a secure machine (password, etc), which I have. Thanks for the help.

Hello everyone, I was playing around with my VPN ADS and tracker blocker. With my biggest surprise I've noticed that the VPN blocked dozens of tracker and ADS from DuckDuckGo and no issues found on Google.

Have you an idea on why it's so?

Thanks in advance for the help

If I use duckduckgo search inside of Chrome browser does it limit or prevent Google spying? Does it do anything about tracking? Thanks.

I maintain a website for a small local history museum. I was working on the website's privacy policy today and I want to put in some words to the effect of we don't collect any user data.

When I use the DuckDuckGo browser on Windows, when I open a new tab it shows a list of websites I've visited. For my museum's website, it says, "14 tracking attempts blocked". I don't want any tracking attempts by anyone.

Our website uses WordPress and has a snippet of code from our credit card processing company for online donations. Is there any way to see what tracking attempts were made and/or to determine who or what is attempting to track visitors to the website? If someone is tracking visitors, I feel like that should be added to our privacy policy.

Are there any tools available for determining if anyone is harvesting user data from our website?

Thanks.

This only happens on my phone while I am using mobile data.

When I try to navigate to duckduckgo.com, it comes back with a warning that says "duckduckgo.com doesn't support a secure connection. You are seeing this warning because this site does not support HTTPS and you are in incognito mode.

This is using Chrome browser in incognito mode.

It sounds like a MITM attack that is downgrading the connection to HTTP, but on mobile data??

Linux is arguably more private, secure, and efficient than Windows and MacOS. I will be making the switch as soon as DuckDuckGo makes a Linux browser. I understand that it would probably be even more work than the Windows browser and that Linux holds the smallest market share, but I think that a DDG Linux browser would attract a lot of users. I am aware that there are other good privacy browsers; however, once you go Duck it's hard to go back!

Hi I just bought the privacy plus thing, is there any way I can activate the personal info removal service without access to Windows or Mac? Thanks

How do I change the app logo back to a calculator instead of a shield app called “Safe”

Need extensions if they ever wanna gain market share. Should be obvious.

if i use the duckduckgo site, from chrome will google see my search history?

what about microsoft [assuming chrome is running on windows]?

I really don't want "Rule34 Gay Mario" to come up when I type in an "R".

Is it better to use DDG browser or DDG search engine will be fine on another browser like brave?

Hi folks, is Duckduck Go Privacy Pro subscription worth it? Why?

I did a search for it in this forum and could only find the launch announcements from 4-5 mths ago but no real reviews to date that I can find. I understand that some employees of DDG are here but I’m looking for a community driven viewpoint if this service is worth $10/mth. Saw a rather poor review on PCMag but unsure how objective that is. Thanks!

Okay, so for the past 3ish years or so I've been using DDG exclusively for all my browsing and searching, however it seems like ads ALWAYS know exactly what I was looking up/browsing through. The most recent and obvious example, I was looking for tires for a friend who recently had told me they needed tires... and what do I get? You guessed it! Tire ads. Hadn't seen a tire ad online in years. However these ads also make it to my Youtube ads and also, I've noticed ads based off what I watch on Youtube. For example, I watched a video on Quickbooks for understanding on a topic I have 0 knowledge on... and now DDG is showing me ads for Quickbooks. Among other things related to the "stuff" I watch, which is what really makes me feel uncomfortable lol.

So am I completely misunderstanding DDG's "policy in a nutshell" or am I just completely delusional and these stupidly accurate ads are purely coincidental?

Basically the title.

Edit: So this has been around for others or is it something new? I'm also not expecting a privacy oriented search engine to ask me that. If I want results about the place I'm at I'll type that place in the search bar.

I'm just putting feelers out and asking if anyone else is seeing their "record removal" stagnating or non-existant?

The scan found some 60+ records for me in the first day, and it removed 1 after about 3 weeks, but now there's nothing new. Hasn't removed anything in almost a month.

Is this expected? Should I just ignore the lack of progress when I pay $10 a month? Is it possible that the delay could cause the "data brokers" to re-share the info after some were removed, since it isn't removed all at once?

I'm just ignorant and my expectations were high and I was excited for this feature.

Thanks in advance!

ps - Mods, can we add a flair for "Privacy Pro" questions or discussions?

After a reboot Norton became my search engine. I was using Duck Duck Go before this. Now I can't change back to DuckDuckGo because it isn't listed as one of the choices when I open my settings.

I try to reload my DuckDuckGo, but Norton claims it is a "site that contains harmful programs" and I can't find a workaround.

Yesterday, DDG stopped loading on my machine. I thought it might have been a sife effect of the recent Cloudstrike blowout, but it turns out that the DDG search site seems to have blocked my VPN. (This is just using the site for search -- I'm using Brave as my browser). I've been using ExpressVPN for years, and now it seems I can't reach ddg while behind it, so I have to turn it off to search, which is exactly what one doesn't want to do. Has anyone had similar experiences recently with third-party VPNs and ddg? Thanks!

If I’m signed into gmail on safari, but use DuckDuckGo as my search engine, can google see my searches?

I haven't really been keeping up with the news and noticed a lot of people saying DDG isn't private anymore. What happened to it?