Nevertheless, the encrypted version does protect your search from being leaked onto the computers it travels on between you and us.Īt DuckDuckGo, our encrypted version goes even further and automatically changes links from a number of major Web sites to point to the encrypted versions of those sites. However, it is slower to connect to these versions and if you click on a site that also uses HTTPS then your search is sent. The other sites will still know that you visited them, but they will not know what search you entered beforehand.Īt some other search engines (including us), you can also use an encrypted version ( HTTPS), which as a byproduct doesn't usually send your search terms to sites. Instead, when you click on a link on our site, we route (redirect) that request in such a way so that it does not send your search terms to other sites. It is this combination of available information about you that raises privacy concerns.ĭuckDuckGo prevents search leakage by default. So when you do that private search, not only can those other sites know your search terms, but they can also know that you searched it. This information can often be used to identify you directly. In addition, when you visit any site, your computer automatically sends information about it to that site (including your User agent and IP address). We call this sharing of personal information "search leakage."įor example, when you search for something private, you are sharing that private search not only with your search engine, but also with all the sites that you clicked on (for that search). This paragraph was added.Īt other search engines, when you do a search and then click on a link, your search terms are sent to that site you clicked on (in the HTTP referrer header).
Removed dead link (Scroogle) and added a missing 'to'. Removed ", which gets sent to my personal email." in last paragraph as our feedback is now handled by multiple team members via.
The rest of this page tries to explain why you should care. That is our privacy policy in a nutshell. DuckDuckGo does not collect or share personal information.
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