As concerns around data privacy grow, more users are turning to search engines that offer greater transparency and less reliance on tracking. Google has long held a firm grip on the search engine ...

As Google grew in size and influence over the years, the tech giant also grew to exercise an awful lot of power over the shape of the internet, and its data-hungry tendrils reach into nearly every ...

SearXNG users are the tinkers and testers of the private-search world. Many of them self-host SearXNG, a meta-search front end that can query dozens of engines while stripping identifiers, filtering ...

In an exclusive interview, DuckDuckGo details its privacy-focused ad partnership with Microsoft, which aims to rethink digital marketing without compromising user privacy. DuckDuckGo earns revenue ...

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As a freelance blogger, I'm always searching for better tools that give me more control online. Lately, I've been exploring self-hosted apps that I can run on my own computer, allowing me to avoid big ...

Although paid search engines are useful for some people, I wouldn't subscribe to one. Paid search engines may remove ads, but ...

In a world where digital footprints are hard to erase, using Safari’s incognito mode (aka private browsing) goes a long way in keeping your browsing private. When you use incognito mode, your browsing ...

Private search engine DuckDuckGo could have been the default for private browsing in Safari but talks allegedly fell through under the might of Google's influence. According to a report from Bloomberg ...

Apple has very quietly added another layer of privacy for Safari in iOS 17 that basically lets you avoid using Google when you are in private browsing. Safari on iOS has long had private browsing — ...

Back in 2018, Apple held talks with DuckDuckGo to replace Google as the default search engine in private browsing mode, but ultimately rejected the idea, according to transcripts unsealed by the judge ...

iOS 17 only just arrived last week and we’re still discovering new features that Apple didn’t tell us about. For instance, this one: In the Safari settings, you can now choose separate default search ...