DuckDuckGo
You may wish to keep your Internet activity private, DuckDuckGo is a way you can minimise the tracking of this activity.
As you can see in the screen-shot of my server logs this does not stop a webmaster from knowing that you have visited.
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How DuckDuckGo make money
DuckDuckGo make great efforts to convince their users that they are not selling your information to the
"highest bidder".
What DuckDuckGo says about privacy:
"
It is a myth that search engines need to track you to make money. We make our money from private ads on our
search engine.
On most other search engines, ads are based on profiles compiled from your personal information, such as
search, browsing,
and purchase history. Since we don’t have that information per our Privacy Policy, search ads on DuckDuckGo
are based on the
search results page you’re viewing instead of being based on who other companies and their tracking
algorithms assume you are as
a person. For example, if you search for cars, we’ll show you ads about cars. We’ve even created a way
to show localized ads
while still keeping you completely anonymous. See the Anonymous Localized Results
help page for more information on how we do this technically.
"
