The company has also updated its App Store description to include a note about tracker blocking. However, we have been consistently pushing and expect to do so shortly. Unfortunately, our Microsoft search syndication agreement limits our ability to do more with Microsoft-owned properties. They block most third-party trackers for non-search tracker blocking (for example, in our browser). DuckDuckGo CEO and founder, Gabriel Weinberg, responded in detail to the uproar on Twitter and Reddit. DuckDuckGo, the exemption is due to a search agreement with Microsoft. You can capture data within the DuckDuckGo so-called private browser on a website like Facebook’s and see that DDG does NOT stop data flow to Microsoft’s Linkedin domains or their Bing advertising domains. Scientists discovered that the browsers permit data to be sent to Microsoft’s LinkedIn and Bing domains. While the browser blocks Facebook and Google trackers, DuckDuckGo allows some Microsoft trackers. DuckDuckGo mobile browsers allow some Microsoft sites to circumvent its tracker ban. DuckDuckGo isn’t Private as you think, facing criticism over its tracking agreement with Microsoft.ĭuckDuckGo’s reputation for privacy protection has suffered as a result of revelations about a tracking agreement with Microsoft.
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