On Google, your searches are tracked, mined, and packaged up into a data profile for advertisers to follow you around the Internet through those intrusive, annoying, and ever-present banner ads, via Google’s massive ad networks, embedded across millions of sites and apps. While DuckDuckGo is completely anonymous, Google is of course not. That’s also why we can’t tell you for sure how many people use DuckDuckGo, because if we counted, our users wouldn’t necessarily be anonymous.

In fact, we don’t even store anything that could even tie anonymous searches together into an anonymous search history, which has been shown in some cases to be able to be de-anonymized (like if you searched for personal information about yourself). We simply don’t store anything that can tie searches to you personally. Each time you search on DuckDuckGo, you have a blank search history, as if you’ve never been there before. We operate a search engine alternative to Google at, and offer additional apps and extensions to protect you from Google, Facebook and other trackers, no matter where you go on the Internet.ĭuckDuckGo search is completely anonymous, in line with our strict privacy policy. If you’re unfamiliar with DuckDuckGo, we are an Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs. How Anonymous Is DuckDuckGo? Filed under DuckDuckGo Q&A

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