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DuckDuckGo: Crazy Name, Growing Crazy-Fast - Security Boulevard

DuckDuckGo has gained a great deal of traction in recent months as more and more users have begun to value their privacy.DuckDuckGo saw over4 million app/extension installations, and the company also said that they have over 65 million active users.

Even though DuckDuckGo is growing rapidly, it still controls less than 2 percent of all search volume in the United States.DuckDuckGo Bing, community-developed sites such as Wikipedia, andits own crawler to generate its index of search results.

Both browsers have been approved by Apple to take advantage of the new option to change your default web browser.DuckDuckGoclaims that it offers better protection against tracking than Safari.

Progress for iThing users, then.Gabriel Weinberg and chums are proudSimple Everyday Privacy with DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser:

Theres big news today for iPhone and iPad users tired of the constant tracking, ad targeting and manipulation when using the Internet: iOS 14 now allows you to setDuckDuckGo Privacy Browser default browser.

Bring on the idealogs.Razvan Oprea-Balais is on a missionThe Best Privacy Oriented Search Engine Which Youve Probably Never Tried:

The most logical and secure way to further protect your data is to delete your Facebook, Google, Microsoft accounts and other affiliated accounts on platforms owned by these companies and never use these again. There are plenty of other options.The second best way to protect your privacy: Install and use DuckDuckGo.By using DuckDuckGo, your personal information will not be stored, you will not be followed around with ads, and you will not be tracked.

It kept being amazing until around 2009, where a change was introduced that no longer required all the words you searched for.

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