According to a report from the Federal Trade Commission, people lost about $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024 — a 25% increase from 2023 — with online shopping scams being the second most reported type of ...

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A new feature from DuckDuckGo‘s iOS app automatically strips away unnecessary tracking identifiers and other parameters that could lead to fingerprinting and other unwanted issues, according to a ...

This post is presented by DuckDuckGo. The web is a creepy place. No matter what you do or where you go, countless digital eyeballs watch what you do, looking to sell your data. DuckDuckGo is known as ...

We’re halfway through 2025, and as a culture we seemed to have decreed that AI slop is the term of the year. Never heard of AI slop? Bless your sweet innocence. It’s the particularly debauched, ...

Privacy-focused search site DuckDuckGo has added yet another way to prevent more of your data from going to advertisers, opening its App Tracking Protection for ...

Privacy-focused browser DuckDuckGo is rolling out a new setting that lets users filter out AI images in search results. The company says it's launching the feature in ...

DuckDuckGo is making it easier to add its No AI search as your default search engine in Firefox and Chrome. At Google I/O in May, Google made it apparent that it is going all-in on AI with the world’s ...

This post has been updated. It was originally posted on February 15, 2019. Is your search engine of choice pulling its weight? It’s perhaps a choice you’ve stopped thinking about, settling for ...