

Weinberg estimates that since 2014, DuckDuckGo’s traffic has been increasing at a rate of “about 50 percent a year,” a claim backed up by the company’s publicly available traffic data.

The same day Weinberg and I spoke, DuckDuckGo’s search engine returned results for 33,626,258 queries - a new daily record for the company. La serilopolitiko diras ke i protektas privatecon, kaj ne registras uzanto-informojn. And unlike the previous generation of privacy products, such as Tor or SecureDrop, these services are easy to use and intuitive, and their user bases aren’t exclusively composed of political activists, security researchers, and paranoiacs. DuckDuckGo estas interreta serilo kiu utiligas informojn de homamase alportitaj retejoj kiel ekzemple Vikipedio por akiri siajn rezultojn. DuckDuckGo is perhaps the most prominent in a number of small but rapidly growing firms attempting to make it big - or at least sustainable - by putting their customers’ privacy and security first. We won’t.” In effect, it’s an anti-sales sales pitch. This, in a nutshell, is DuckDuckGo’s proposition: “The big tech companies are taking advantage of you by selling your data. In late November, hotel conglomerate Marriott International disclosed that the personal information of some 500 million customers - including home addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers -…
