This extension for Firefox, Chrome, and Opera encrypts user communications with many major websites.

Partnership With EFF Helps HTTPS Everywhere ExtensionĪlso, a recent partnership formed with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in April 2021 has lent DuckDuckGo’s Smarter Encryption rule sets to the HTTPS Everywhere browser extension, thereby giving it extra security. – The addition of a “Fireproofing” prompt which gives users the choice to keep certain sites logged-in between Fire Button burns.

– New animation options to the “Fire Button”, the button used to clear all tabs and browsing data with one tap. – A new App Tracking Protection (beta) feature in the Android app that blocks third-party trackers like Google and Facebook lurking in other apps. – A beta release of Email Protection, a free email forwarding service that removes trackers in a user’s email and protects the privacy of a personal email address without asking the user to change email providers. Some of the extra features recently announced by DuckDuckGo include: Also, DuckDuckGo’s Smarter Encryption enables users to be extra-secure in their browsing by being able to detect unencrypted, non-secure HTTP connections to websites and then automatically upgrading them to encrypted connections. In a recent blog post, DuckDuckGo’s CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, said of the search engine’s popularity, “We’re now the most downloaded browsing app on Android in our major markets (and #2 on iOS behind Chrome), we’re averaging more than 100 million searches a day, and our most recent survey showed 27 million Americans (9 per cent) use DuckDuckGo.” PrivacyĭuckDuckGo retains a user’s privacy by not saving the user’s browser history, forcing sites to use encrypted connections, blocking cookies and trackers (including ‘hidden trackers’ before they load), and by stopping a user’s searches being sold to third parties for profiling and advertising.ĭuckDuckGo uses Smarter Encryption which utilises a list of millions of HTTPS-encrypted websites, which has been generated by continuous crawling the of the web instead of crowdsourcing, thereby keeping it current. The company, founded in 2008, also plans to launch a desktop browser for macOS laptops and desktops soon. DuckDuckGoĭuckDuckGo is a privacy-centred search engine / privacy browsing app, which is available as a download for mobile devices and a Chrome extension. In this tech insight, we look at what DuckDuckGo is, what features it offers, and why businesses may consider using it.

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