Because we’re doing this where we can, users are still getting significantly more privacy protection with DuckDuckGo than they would using Safari, Firefox and other browsers.” What we’re talking about here is an above-and-beyond protection that most browsers don’t even attempt to do - that is, blocking third-party tracking scripts before they load on 3rd party websites. “When most other browsers on the market talk about tracking protection, they are usually referring to 3rd-party cookie protection and fingerprinting protection, and our browsers for iOS, Android, and our new Mac beta, impose these restrictions on third-party tracking scripts, including those from Microsoft. At that point, Microsoft Advertising will use your full IP address and user-agent string so that it can properly process the ad click and charge the advertiser,” DuckDuckGo says in the help page it created about the issue.įurther, Weinberg provided Bleeping Computer with a statement after the news broke, saying that the company has been “extremely careful to never promise anonymity”.Ī further snippet of the statement reads: “If you click on a Microsoft-provided ad, you will be redirected to the advertiser’s landing page through Microsoft Advertising’s platform. However, we have been continually pushing and expect to be doing more soon.- Gabriel Weinberg May 23, 2022

Unfortunately our Microsoft search syndication agreement prevents us from doing more to Microsoft-owned properties. 👀🫥😮‍💨🤡⛈️⚖️💸💸💸 /u3Q30KIs7e- ℨ𝔞𝔠𝔥 𝔈𝔡𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔰 May 23, 2022ĭuckDuckGo’s CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, was quick to respond to the Twitter thread Edwards created.įor non-search tracker blocking (eg in our browser), we block most third-party trackers. You can capture data within the DuckDuckGo so-called private browser on a website like Facebook's and you'll see that DDG does NOT stop data flows to Microsoft's Linkedin domains or their Bing advertising domains.

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