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DuckDuckGo is a for-profit (so no, they don't accept donations) and very profitable since 2014. They sell non-tracking ads and affiliate links related to search
by gpas 4y ago
DuckDuckGo is a for-profit (so no, they don't accept donations) and very profitable since 2014. They sell non-tracking ads and affiliate links related to search queries. They also have various investors.
Most interestingly they donate every year (last round was $1M in 2021) to orgs that work to improve privacy.
- Kukumber 4y agoDuckDuckGo refused every independent audits DuckDuckGo android app leaks your identity and websites you visit to them [1], issue they closed with a surprising reply Issue happened again years later [2] DuckDuckGo got caught with their shady terms with Microsoft (bing tracker drama) They estimate 70M-100M users [3], you don't make 100M a year with that amount of users, either Microsoft overpaid them for the tracker, or they are hiding something It's impossible to find their detailed earning reports, so nobody can confirm their claims, and yet it's being promoted as a privacy focused search by the media all around the world, why? despite these major flaws? i don't know So who knows what they do else? [1] - https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527 https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527 [2] - https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/2004 https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/2004 [3] - https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/16/on-a-growth-tear-duckduckgo-reveals-it-picked-up-100m-in-secondary-investment-last-year/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/16/on-a-growth-tear-duckduckg...