I was driving up through Pennsylvania last summer, somewhere along US Route 15 between Harrisburg and Williamsport, when I saw a familiar face: a goofy cartoon duck wearing a green bowtie. It was the ...

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo wants to protect your data when searching online. Here's how to use it on your phone and computer. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers ...

That's where this independent search engine comes in, and makes it so rare in 2025. Mojeek crawls and runs its own search index, doesn't track you for advertising, and offers a rare sliver of peaceful ...

Here's everything you should know about the privacy-minded search engine and all the other privacy tools and services it offers. Adam Benjamin has helped people navigate complex problems for the past ...

Startpage, a privacy search engine, on Tuesday released the Startpage Privacy Protection browser extension for free download on Chrome and Firefox. The extension ...

The launch means DuckDuckGo has a competitive, useful browser on all the major computing platforms, which makes its privacy-first case even stronger. The launch means DuckDuckGo has a competitive, ...

Even if you have nothing to hide, searching the web with Google can sometimes feel unnerving. Maybe you’ve got a medical question or financial concern that you’d rather keep to yourself, or you want ...

Presearch Takeover Advertising (PTA), an ad service from the meta-search engine focused on privacy, has attracted well-known brands such as NordVPN. “We’ve been running the takeover ads about once or ...

Brave, the privacy-focused browser co-founded by ex-Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, is getting ready to launch an own-brand search engine for desktop and mobile. Today it’s announced the acquisition of an ...

As TC readers know, the tricky trade-off of the modern web is privacy for convenience. Online tracking is how this ‘great intimacy robbery’ is pulled off. Mass surveillance of what Internet users are ...