“We share our most intimate information with search engines – financial, medical, – and that information deserves to be private and not used for profiling or data targeting,” Davis commented. Speaking to The Daily Swig, Daniel Davis, DuckDuckGo’s communications manager, said that the company has taken a different approach and “we believe getting privacy online should be simple and accessible to everyone, period”. The DuckDuckGo homepage has become a familiar sight Rather than charge users for an online service, some would argue that collecting data on users – such as their search queries, web page visits, and ‘likes’ on social media – is a fair trade.įor DuckDuckGo, however, the company believes that a right to privacy should trump marketing interests. This revenue stream becomes its most lucrative when data is used to create user profiles, resulting in personalized ad targeting. There is money to be made in online advertising, and this ecosystem is the lifeblood of everything from media outlets to search engines and social media platforms. The first iterations of the DuckDuckGo search engine, launched in 2008, focused on offering improved search results – taking on the likes of Google and Yahoo! – but as time went on, the company’s attention pivoted to emerging security and privacy challenges. INTERVIEW DuckDuckGo’s journey started as an idea in the mind of Gabriel Weinberg, who found poor search results and high levels of spam a daily annoyance when he was browsing the web. Note: Other sites which have both a mobile and desktop site will also work for the testing aboveįor contributions such as this, you should really try to provide multiple examples to ensure that your bug is valid.ĭue to the reasons mentioned above, I don't believe an issue has occurred and it's because of this I cannot accept this contribution.DuckDuckGo’s Daniel Davis discusses the privacy-focused search engine’s future in the market The page will reload and the desktop site will be shown.Launch the menu and enable desktop site.Youtube will load and the mobile site will be shown.Launch the menu by clicking the 3 dots and ensure desktop is not checked.You can follow the following steps to replicate my experience. I conducted further testing to ensure that this is working as expected on other sites, my site of choice was. The duckduckgo site has been optimized to support both small and large width devices with a single site and I cannot find any information which suggests otherwise. Within this contribution you only mention one site within your testing this is and it doesn't believe it's mobile site differs from its desktop site and this is why you don't see a change in the site. Unfortunately, your contribution cannot be approved because I don't believe an issue has occurred based on the information provided.
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