After criticism from users, the privacy-friendly search engine will also stop tracking by Microsoft.
DuckDuckGo is a search engine that does not track you online and thereby omits trackers or other techniques to identify you online. In addition, it also has extensions for Firefox and a mobile browser.
In May, the organization was criticized for this. Despite its promise, DuckDuckGo’s browser still contained Microsoft tracking scripts. That is why it is now announcing that that too will be discontinued.
CEO Gabriel Weinberg also explains why: “We were restricted from applying 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection to Microsoft tracking scripts by a policy requirement linked to our use of Bing as the source of our search results.”
Now that requirement is no longer there, and Weinberg emphasizes that no similar cases from other companies are used. In addition, other tracking techniques such as cookies were previously completely deleted.
The organization also says that DuckDuckGo users are not profiled when they click on an ad served by Microsoft. For example, that click is not linked to an online advertising profile to know your interests.