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CTOnews.com, October 1 (Xinhua)-- DuckDuckGo, a browser known for its privacy protection, celebrated its 15th birthday at the end of last month. Gabriel Weinberg, the company's CEO and founder, posted a blog about DuckDuckGo's development and vision for the future.

DuckDuckGo was born in a basement in Pennsylvania in September 2008, when the founder wanted to provide a "user-centric" alternative to Google, "before the world began to realize the terrible power of Google, Facebook and other companies."

Then the progress of DuckDuckGo as a search engine was slow, and in 2011, DuckDuckGo began to enter an explosive period, and Gabriel began to form a team and establish the company's vision of "improving trust standards on the Internet." "Today our vision remains the same, and 15 years later we have created something really rare in the tech world: a healthy, profitable company that protects rather than takes advantage of users' privacy," he said. "

He believes that people begin to pay attention to their online privacy is the driving force to promote the development of DuckDuckGo. Data show that the DuckDuckGo browser and its extensions have been downloaded more than 2.5 billion times, and the search engine of the same name ranks second in the mobile user market in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and other places, and the third in the browser market in the United States, Britain, Germany, France, India and other places.

CTOnews.com previously reported that the Windows version of DuckDuckGo launched a public trial in June this year, with the highlight of giving priority to privacy, security and user-friendly features. Compared with mainstream browsers such as Chrome, Windows version of DuckDuckGo provides a rich privacy protection scheme by default, which solves the same privacy issues of WebView 2 and ensures that crash reports are not sent to Microsoft.

However, onMSFT reported in May last year that DuckDuckGo, a well-known privacy-first search engine, was subject to some scrutiny for its joint agreement with Microsoft after researchers found that DuckDuckGo was "lenient".

According to a Twitter post by supply chain and privacy data researcher Zach Edwards, "the new DuckDuckGo browser for iOS / Android will not block Microsoft's data flow and is suitable for LinkedIn or Bing searches."

For a company that prides itself on privacy and anonymity, Edwards's discovery puts DuckDuckGo CEO and founder Gabriel Weinberg into mitigation mode with the following statement:

"for non-search tracker blocking (for example, in our browsers), we block most third-party trackers. Unfortunately, our Microsoft search syndication agreement prevents us from doing more about the assets Microsoft owns. However, we have been pushing and hope to do more soon."

As for the details of the joint agreement between Microsoft and DuckDuckGo, Microsoft Advertising (platform) can track the IP address and other information of DuckDuckGo users when the ad link is clicked.

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