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DuckDuckGo founder answers user questions about online privacy
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Updated onJuly 31, 2021
updated onJuly 31, 2021
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Online privacy is one of the hottest topics of debate in the world. The idea that user data is a commodity doesn’t appeal to anyone.
Unfortunately, nowadays being online and exposing personal information go hand in hand. Your online activity, including the pages that you visited, thekeywords that you searched for, the time of the day that you go online and many more metrics are carefully scrutinized.
There are huge databases about you and your online activity and many users aren’t even aware of this fact.
Fortunately, the antidote is available as well. There are quite a few programs out there that you can use tohide your online tracks. The Internet search engineDuckDuckGois one of them.
DuckDuckGo puts searchers’ privacy first and avoids personalized search results. In other words, this search engine doesn’t track its users.
If you haven’t heard of DuckDuckGo before and you don’t really know what to think about it or you’re not familiar with this wholeInternet privacy debate, this article will shed some light on the matter.
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Gabriel Weinberg, DuckDuckGo’s creator recently hosted a ‘Ask Me Anything’ session on Reddit that kind of went under the radar for many.
Well, we went through the answers and compiled the best of them in this article. So, if you’re curios to learn more about Internet privacy and DuckDuckGo, check out the list of facts available below.
Here are a few interesting facts about DuckDuckGo
That’s one great thing about web search, that all searches can be independent and so you don’t need to save anything about the person searching after the search.
You can check out the full AMA session onReddit.
If you’re interested in protecting your online privacy, check out the following articles:
For enhanced privacy, we recommend that you pair DuckDuckGo withCyberGhost.
Have you used DuckDuckGo on your Windows computer? Tell us more about your experience in the comments below.
More about the topics:Cybersecurity,privacy
Madalina Dinita
Networking & Security Specialist
Madalina has been a Windows fan ever since she got her hands on her first Windows XP computer.
She is interested in all things technology, especially emerging technologies – AI and DNA computing in particular.
Prior to joining the WindowsReport team, she worked in the corporate world for a number of years.
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Madalina Dinita
Networking & Security Specialist
Madalina is a Windows fan since forever, especially interested in AI, emerging technologies, privacy, and security.
