DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with Microsoft

• duckduckgo-privacy-extension

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  DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials browser extension for Firefox, Chrome.

  

  > This is also a somewhat misleading title since it's not about our search engine, which people would assume

  I understand the controversy (or at least I think I do), and I also respect what you're trying to explain.

  But if DuckDuckGo has to have a browser (instead of simply recommending to its users to change their default search engine on their current browser), then that browser needs to live up to its promises, and also to very high standards.

  On the current page for the DDG browser [1] it says at the top:

  > Seamlessly take control of your personal information, no matter where the Internet takes you.

  If this means anything, it means the DDG browser blocks all trackers, always, in all places, no?

  [1] https://duckduckgo.com/app

• duckduckgo-locales

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  Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

  

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  With that context, RT is a media outlet with "very limited press freedom" where journalists must censor their articles or else face jail time, or worse. And RT still shows up in our results, and on top if you search for it directly, e.g., https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rt+ukraine&ia=web

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• privacytests.org

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  Source code for privacytests.org. Includes browser testing code and site rendering.

  

  > the tracker landscape is constantly evolving

  Sure. But this is usually addressed by filter lists.

  > see https://privacytests.org/

  Very interesting link, thanks. Didn't know that localStorage and sessionStorage could be read across domains!

  But the comparison should include (browser)+uBlock. I wonder if there are many users who care about privacy and don't install uBlock by default.

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