Opinion - Spread Privacy

Google Built a Monopoly on Search Defaults and Will Do It Again in AI

This week, DuckDuckGo is filing an amicus brief in the appeal of a federal court decision that Google unlawfully maintained a monopoly in the general search market in violation of the Sherman Antitrust

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Google broke the law. It's paid no price. Congress can change that.

Nearly two years since a judge ruled Google an illegal monopolist. Total changes Google has had to make so far: zero. That's what getting away with it looks like. The SEARCH Act can end it now.

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Roadblocks to Competition: Investigate Google’s Non-Compliance with the EU’s Digital Markets Act

DuckDuckGo calls on the European Commission to launch three non-compliance investigations around Google’s obligations under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).

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Creating Enduring Competition in the Search Market

As a company that operates a search engine that directly competes with Google, we have several ideas about how to craft a set of legal and technical interventions that can, in combination, effectively curb the advantages Google has gained through illegal use of their search monopoly.

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Privacy-Focused Technology Companies Call for a Floor Vote on Antitrust Legislation

13 privacy-focused technology companies representing more than 100 million users in the United States published a letter imploring the U.S. Congress bring the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) to a floor vote as soon as possible.

Search Preference Menus

10 Principles for Fair Choice Screens and Effective Switching Mechanisms

Choice screens and effective switching mechanisms are crucial tools that empower users and enable competition in the search engine and browser markets.

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Search Engines Should be Able to Guide Consumers to Search Preference Menus

Consumers deserve a competitive search market where the search engines they want are actually “just one click away.”

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Dear Google: We Agree Search Competition Should Be "Only 1 Click Away" – So Why Is It 15+ on Android?

Google claims search competition is “only one click away.” So why does it take fifteen+ clicks to make DuckDuckGo Search or any other alternative the default on Android devices?

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Search Preference Menus: Google Auction Ignores Screen Size and Scrolling

New data showing that restricting the number of search engine options in search preference menus is unnecessary and harmful to competition.

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Working from Home? Consider These Privacy-Focused Tools

As a remote-first Internet privacy company, we firmly believe that working outside of a traditional office setting should not compromise your privacy. To that end, we’ve rounded up privacy-respecting tools, and important settings, that you can confidently utilize while you’re working remotely.

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Working Remotely for the First Time? Here Are 5 Tips From Our All-Remote Team

In the wake of COVID-19, many people are suddenly working remotely. At DuckDuckGo, we’ve always been a remote-first company, so we wanted to take a moment to share helpful tips and words of encouragement, directly from some of our staff.

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Search Preference Menus: No Auctions Please

As Google’s search preference menu for Android goes live in the EU, sadly search options are decided by a Google-designed pay-to-play auction, prioritizing their profits over your choices. Here's why the auction model should be thrown out.

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Search Preference Menus: Improving Choice With Design

Google’s search preference menu for the European Union is designed in a way that undercuts the very reason it was created, making it harder than necessary for people to choose a non-Google search engine alternative. We propose user-tested design improvements.

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Search Preference Menu Immediately Increases Google Competitors’ Market Share by 300-800%

Could a search engine preference menu significantly increase competition in the search market? We conducted research to find out.

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The Do-Not-Track Act of 2019

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are using the "Do Not Track" browser setting and yet most all sites ignore it. We're proposing draft legislation that can serve as a starting point to fix this unfortunate reality.

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24 Tech Companies Back CCPA Amendment to Make It Stronger: Privacy for All Act of 2019

With 23 co-signers, we're sending a letter of support for the Privacy for All Act of 2019 to the Privacy Committee of the California Assembly, to strengthen CCPA.

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DuckDuckGo Testimony Before the United States Senate

Testimony of Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo, before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Three Reasons Why the "Nothing to Hide" Argument is Flawed

As Internet privacy has become more mainstream, this argument is rightfully fading away. However, it’s still floating around and so we wanted to take a moment to explain three key reasons why it's flawed.

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Data Privacy Day 2018: Live Free of Facebook and Google Tracking

If you're going to make real progress in your data privacy this year, you must do something about your Google and Facebook use. Here's why and how.

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What if We All Just Sold Non-Creepy Advertising?

The big ad-tech companies know how to sell ads without damaging privacy, but they choose not to.