DuckDuckGo is a search engine that is interested in your privacy and has designed its web browser to protect it and keep you anonymous.
Not that it appears many of us out here in internet land care about our privacy – Google builds dossiers about us from out use of Google search, YouTube and any other of it’s free services that it can source “private” information from and then there is Meta. But don’t stop there many “free” (and in some cases paid-for) online services collect data about you and then use it or sell it. Sometime you will not mind that they do it – but to find out what they plan to do, you need to read that terms and conditions page you skipped over when signed up – and if you did read it, then a few months later you were notified that there was a new version and you should read that as well…
Mark Asay, on the TechRepublic website has an interesting article about DuckDuckGo’s success and where it can go next.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
