Ever see ads so creepy it feels like your phone is listening to you? Or notice ads following you around for something you searched for once? If you’re wondering who to blame, it’s probably Google. Use DuckDuckGo to get more privacy online. Our list of trackers is open source, along with the list of exceptions we make to preserve usability. Other browsers offer some of these by default, like cookie and fingerprinting protections, but we also provide many other protections that most browsers do not offer by default, like 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection, Global Privacy Control, Link Tracking Protection, CNAME Cloaking Protection, Google AMP Protection, and more, which all help cover different tracking angles. That’s also why we offer multiple types of web tracking protections. To be effective, our protections continually evolve to mitigate this while avoiding website breakage. No service can eliminate all hidden tracking or all profiling online because trackers are always trying to evade specific protections. And when you leave our search engine and use our browsers or extensions to visit other sites, we aim to protect your privacy as much as possible.
