I mean like if DuckDuckGo was able to make a privacy focused LLM where do you think they get the training data for the LLM cause thats the only way to make it better. Is it possible to make the training data never leave your local device cause it would really be awesome considering we live in day where LLMs send data to AI data centres for training and we really need a LLM that maintains your privacy by not sending your training data to AI data centres and instead process them on the local device. Don’t know if duck AI already does this and I am not sure if this is something DuckDuckGo’s cause can’t allow

It's already late and duckduckgo should add IPv6 support for us. we need better privacy through IPv6 privacy and temporary addresses.

EDIT:
Since there are many misconceptions about IPv6, let me explain the **privacy** issue of it.

IPv6 alone DOES NOT provide better privacy. Not having IPv6 on server-side (like DDG) DOES affects privacy of IPv6 users because they have to use NAT64+DNS64 and many harmful other techniques to access DDG.

Why?

- DNS64 breaks DNSSEC and NAT64 shares most of the problems of NAT44.

- Correlation problem which temporary addresses solve.

I mean like for everything we use the @duck.com email address and they can be rerouted to the email address we gave for the creation of the email address basically use @duck.com for everything within the browser instead of collecting our actual email address and route all the messages that go to @duck.com email address to our actual email address or does your privacy oriented goal prevent that?

Is it possible to change Google search as the default search engine in the DuckDuckGo Android? The DuckDuck search is quite bad in my native language.

I have a school computer and I “watched” corn on it through a proxy that had duck duck go and that’s how I searched the sites. BUT I didn’t stay on it for long maybe 10 seconds because I thought it was funny but I’m still scared because my Chromebook won’t turn on like the buttons don’t glow when I press it and I tried logging into my account on a different device and it didn’t work even though I had the right password and email. I suspect my account has been deleted because of it but there was another incident that may have caused it to be deleted. Before, I commented in a sports you gc with friends and pretended to be a teacher and called them pretty ladies. Anywho, they found that it was my account and had to investigate it and I’m scared that they also looked through my search history but unless they did extra fancy stuff, they wouldn’t be able to see the exact sites I vistied on the proxy DuckDuckGo search engine right? I’ve been scared all summer about if I’d get in trouble when I go to Highschool, since I’d need them to fix my Chromebook. Help or advice please anyone.

Hi there ! A few months ago, I was reinitializing my phone for personal reasons, and I remember seeing a pop-up selection screen that proposed to use DDG as my default browser. I accepted that, and then the Google Search bar changed to a DDG search bar, and I liked that. However, not too long after that, I might have made a mistake of some kind because the search bar reverted to Google and I've since been looking for a way to change it to DDG again. I made sure to select DDG as my default browser again, but this time it didn't change the search bar.

I recently switched over to Linux because I was tired of windows and wanted a more secure OS without realizing that DuckDuckGo doesn’t support it. Yes there is a browser extension but it’s not the same. Anyways if y’all could recommend some similar browsers that also have no ai image/search if there are any, it would be appreciated.

Edit: I ended up using librewolf with DuckDuckGo extension and I like it so far! Still miss some of the features of DuckDuckGo browser but this will do for now

Was using DDG browser to search for an online store, very first result turned out to be a spoof /phishing site, looked legit and almost exactly like the real store. Didn't realize it's a scam site until after entering credit card info and the "sale" wouldn't go through. The fake site doesn't show up in Chrome search results so obviously their security is working. Reported it, but the site is still up GoodbyeDuckDuckGo you suck!!

idk ive been using it for their security reasons for some stuff but idk if i should use it for the general use like googling stuff or for studying, i like that on ios i can prevent popups from random pages too and block ads on them as in pc but idk if duckduckgo can do the same with an adblocker on mobile

I have some 34,000 files that are part of previous versions of DDG. I can't erase them because of access denied. The files take up some 80GB. I can't seem to find any reference to this situation. I backed up my settings, uninstalled the program and deleted 80GB of old program versions, but I could not delete the other 80GB in APPDATA and WindowsAPPs folders.

How to clean this up?

I’ve noticed that my bookmarks are constantly moving from their designated folders to the general bookmarks category. Is this happening to anyone else?

Given the revelation of a cofounder Mullvad being the biggest funder a far-right party in Sweden backing “remigration,” I would like to know who the provider of DDG’s VPN services is.

Is DDG affiliated with Mullvad in any capacity such as for either VPN services or a default search engine deal? Thank you

Hey all, using the search bar in the DDG browser, or the DDG Search tool, I'm finding it times out and stalls, sometimes doesn't load at all. Happens across multiple devices on the network, but it's not consistent. Has anyone else see this happen before? any idea where to look?