DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials by DuckDuckGo

Privacy, simplified.

Tired of being tracked online? We can help. At DuckDuckGo, we believe online privacy should be simple.

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials comes packed with best-in-class privacy essentials and makes browsing in Firefox even faster.

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Search Privately — our private search engine comes built-in so you can search the Internet without being tracked.
• Escape Website Tracking — block most hidden 3rd-party trackers found lurking on websites you visit by preventing tracking scripts from loading. This is an effective way to keep companies behind these trackers from collecting and selling your data. See notes and links below for more information.
• Enforce Encryption — force many sites you visit to use an encrypted (HTTPS) connection where available, protecting your data from prying eyes.
• Block Email Trackers (Beta) — 70% of emails track you as soon as you open them. Enabling our Email Protection is the easy way to block most email trackers and hide your address without switching email services. Join the private waitlist for the free beta version through our mobile app settings menu.
• Signal Your Privacy Preference with GPC — built into the app, Global Privacy Control (GPC) intends to help you express your opt-out rights automatically by telling websites not to sell or share your personal information. Whether it can be used to enforce your legal rights (for example, current or future CCPA, GDPR requirements) depends on the laws in your jurisdiction.

PLUS EVEN MORE PROTECTION FROM: 

• Fingerprinting — helps stop companies from trying to combine specific information about your browser and device settings to create a unique identifier for you that they can use to follow you around the web.
• Link Tracking — helps stop websites from gathering your browsing history and personal identifiers from links you click on. 
• Social Trackers — block a lot of embedded social content around the web so companies like Facebook can't track you through their videos, posts, and comments found on other sites. You can easily unblock to view them if desired. 
• Google AMP — force sites to load content directly from publishers instead of using Google-owned links, which are full of creepy trackers.
• Unexpected Cookies — prevent most 3rd-party tracking cookies from tracking you as you browse from site to site.

You don't need to wait to take back your privacy. Join the millions of people using DuckDuckGo and protect many of your everyday online activities. It's privacy, simplified. 
  

Note about our tracker blocking for 3rd-party sites and emails: 
DuckDuckGo never tracks you. When you leave our search engine to use other sites, we aim to block as many hidden trackers as possible, but we can't block them all for a few reasons. New trackers emerge all the time, so first we need to find them. Then, blocking these trackers can sometimes break functionality, so we need to develop new approaches without hurting usability. Additionally, in our extension we offer a specific type of protection that stops scripts from even loading on 3rd-party sites, which isn’t offered on most popular browsers by default. Currently, this one loading protection doesn't apply to Microsoft scripts on 3rd-party sites due to contractual restrictions. However, our other tracker blocking methods (like 3rd-party cookie blocking) are unrestricted and continue to work against these trackers to protect your privacy online. 

MORE ABOUT OUR TECHNOLOGY:
Tracker Radar: https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-tracker-radar/ 
Smarter Encryption: https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-smarter-encryption/ 
Email Protection: https://spreadprivacy.com/introducing-email-protection-beta/ 
GPC: https://spreadprivacy.com/announcing-global-privacy-control/ 
 
Looking for our Mac browsing app? You can sign up for the private waitlist in the settings of the Android or iOS apps. Learn More: https://spreadprivacy.com/introducing-duckduckgo-for-mac/ 
 
MORE ABOUT DUCKDUCKGO:
• About Us: https://duckduckgo.com/about/ 
• Privacy Newsletter: https://duckduckgo.com/newsletter 
• Privacy Policy: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy/ 
• Open Source Code: https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-privacy-extension