At DuckDuckGo, we believe the best way to protect your personal information from hackers, scammers, and privacy-invasive companies is to stop it from being collected at all. That's why millions of people choose DuckDuckGo over Chrome and other browsers to search and browse online. Our built-in search engine is like Google but never tracks your searches. Our browser blocks YouTube ads, invasive web ads, and cookie pop-ups, reducing distractions and helping to stop other companies from collecting your data. While our optional integrated AI features, Search Assist and Duck.ai, are private and never use your data to train AI. Oh, and our browser is free. We make money from privacy-respecting search ads, not by exploiting your data. Take back control of your personal information with the browser designed for data protection, not data collection.
FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS
• Search Privately by Default: DuckDuckGo Private Search comes built-in, so you can easily search online without being tracked.
• Block Most Trackers Before They Load: Our 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection exceeds what most popular browsers offer by default, stopping most hidden tracking scripts from loading and collecting your personal data.
• Chat Privately With AI: Duck.ai lets you have private conversations with 3rd-party AI models, anonymized by us and never used to train AI.
• Enable Built-in Email Protection: Block most email trackers and hide your existing email address with @duck.com addresses.
• Block Ads: Our browser blocks YouTube Ads, and stops invasive trackers from loading on sites, effectively eliminating targeted ads.
• Automatically Enforce Encryption: Shield your data from network and Wi-Fi snoopers by forcing many sites to use an HTTPS connection.
• Escape Fingerprinting: Make it harder for companies to create a unique identifier for you by blocking attempts to combine info about your browser and device.
• Import Bookmarks and Passwords: Easily bring your bookmarks and login info from another browser to DuckDuckGo. Plus, Sync bookmarks and passwords across your devices.
• And many more protections not available on most browsers.
EVERYDAY PRIVACY CONTROLS
• Clear your tabs and browsing data in a flash with the Fire Button.
• Banish cookie pop-ups and automatically set your preferences to minimize cookies and maximize privacy.
• Signal your privacy preference with Global Privacy Control (GPC) built into our app. GPC intends to help you express your opt-out rights automatically by telling websites not to sell or share your personal info. Whether it can be used to enforce your legal rights depends on the laws in your jurisdiction.
DUCKDUCKGO SUBSCRIPTION
Subscribers get:
• Our VPN: Secure your connection on up to 5 devices.
• Access to advanced AI Models in Duck.ai: Chat privately with AI models built for complex tasks.
• Personal Information Removal: Find and remove personal info from sites that store and sell it.
• Identity Theft Restoration: If your identity is stolen, we’ll help restore it.
DuckDuckGo Subscription Pricing & Terms
Payment will be charged automatically to your Apple Account until you cancel, which you can do in app settings. Your personal info is not required to subscribe. You have the option to provide an email address to activate your subscription on other devices, and we will only use that email address to verify your subscription. For terms of service and privacy policy, visit https://duckduckgo.com/pro/privacy-terms
Read about our free Tracking Protections at https://help.duckduckgo.com/privacy/web-tracking-protections
Privacy Policy: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy/
Terms of Service: https://duckduckgo.com/terms
Privacy. Simplified. ™
I use the DDG addon for Firefox with good success, so I figured I would go for broke and try the browser. After a week, I went back to Firefox, and here are the reasons. First. I get more ads in DDG than in FF, which seems counter-intuitive, but was true. Second, DDG seems to have trouble handling Twitter, especially video. Hesitations, delayed starts, etc. Generally, video handling overall is so-so. Also, some sites have an issue with ads overlaying the page text. And almost every time I put my MBP to sleep for the night. DDG was frozen the next morning.Too many glitches for me. Maybe try again next year.
Great browser with a slight hitch re. subscription
Kyoung21b
I’m a big fan of DuckDuckGo and have been using the browser for years. So, given that I wanted to start using a VPN, I was more than happy to contribute to their efforts by getting a subscription. The VPN seems to work well but I found the Personal Information Removal feature somewhat problematic. When enabled DuckDuckGo claims that they submit requests to remove your personal information from the sites that they identify as making your personal information available. But after having the subscription for more than a month, personal information has apparently been removed from only 3 of 45 identified sites (and the number of identified sites appears to be growing). They also mention that one can make personal requests to the identified sites to remove information, but as one might expect the sites make that a bit of a nightmare, and I didn’t get anywhere with that. So the net result of turning Personal Information Removal on has only been to increase my anxiety about seeing directly how widespread my shared information is on the web.
Easy Switch from Chrome/Safari/Mozilla
DemetriasPerf
DuckDuckGo made my switch from GoogleChrome SUPER EASY! Once downloaded from the App Store and I open the browswer it asks 4 simple questions so it's customized to my liking. It asked if I wanted to IMPORT ALL OF MY BOOKMARKS FROM GOOGLE CHROME!!!! I LOVE THAT!! I believe it can import from whatever browser you use!!!! I also love that I'm using their simple search engine without targeted ads, sponsered sites at the top of my search, and thrid-parties following my every move. At the top of the page, everytime I'm on a new site, it shows me which sites were blocked from accessing my move. Thank you DuckDuckGo for making my transition to your browser easy and secure. I feel safe over here!
Just uninstalled for the 2nd time
TechKitten
I thought I'd try this browser again because I really like using DDG's search engine, but alas it's still lacks too much to be of any use to me. While I can appreciate it's privacy features, the downsides make it not worth keeping: 1) Despite many users asking for integration of password managers (like 1Password), It still won't support them...this is a hard obstacle for me - using the Cmd \ isn't a suitable workaround (still have to copy & paste). 2) The lack of some basic fine-tuning controls, like disable searching from the URL bar (which MANY people hate) - why can't that just be an option? Why force it on users who hate using the URL bar for search? 3) The ADS! Gah! Really, DDG? It's another hard obstacle for me - I get needing revenue, then charge a minimal amount for the browser - I have, and will continue to, pay for premium applications when they're good, and I'd pay for a great browser. It's bad enough that so many websites shove their ads at me everywhere I go, I can't accept it when the browser does it too. I downloaded and installed it, but within 10 minutes I was so frustrated with it that I just uninstalled it again, I may or may not give it a third chance at some future point.
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Version 1.209.0
The developer, DuckDuckGo, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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