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With one free download, you get an everyday private Internet browser that offers seamless protection while you search and browse, and access to tracking protection for emails you receive and apps you use. ‘That’s why we have always been extremely careful to never promise anonymity when browsing outside our search engine, because that frankly isn’t possible. Holistically though I believe what we offer is the best thing out there for mainstream users who want simple privacy protection without breaking things, and that is our product vision.The DuckDuckGo app provides the most comprehensive online privacy protection with the push of a button. And we face many constraints: platform constraints (we can’t offer all protections on every platform do to limited APIs or other restrictions), limited contractual constraints (like in this case), breakage constraints (blocking some things totally breaks web experiences), and of course the evolving tracking arms race that we constantly work to keep ahead of. ‘I know our product is not perfect and will never be.

He continued: ‘Because we’re doing this where we can, users are still getting significantly more privacy protection with DuckDuckGo than they would using Safari, Firefox and other browsers. Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and founder of DuckDuckGo (Credits: DuckDuckGo)
