![]() Basically if you go to any site, there’s often like 10 trackers sitting there.Īnother surprise to a lot of people is the location-tracking history in apps. Google is on 80 percent of the top 1 million websites, and Facebook is on about 25 percent. People are surprised to learn how many trackers are lurking on websites. GW: If you’re not on the encrypted version, the company you’re visiting could take your browsing history. We crawl the web and have a huge list of about 6 million websites two versions, and we make sure you’re always going to the encrypted one. We also have an encryption package which makes sure you go to the encrypted version of a site when one exists. And since we spoke to The Citizen, we’ve expanded our services to include blocking Google and Facebook and other trackers that lurk on the websites you visit as you browse the web. GW: We’ve been writing a non-tracking alternative to Google for a decade. We provide the tools and technology to so. The internet shouldn’t be creepy, and privacy should be as easy as closing your blinds. What we are trying to do is provide this simple solution for how to get people to protect themselves. GW: So, people want to be tracked less online, for a lot of reasons-identity theft, creepy ads, discrimination. JP: Online privacy issues feel overly complicated-can you explain for those of us without your two degrees from MIT what DuckDuckGo is and does? As online privacy-and the egregious, seemingly ubiquitous breach of it-continues to become a bigger hot-button issue than ever, what better time to check in with Weinberg, arguably one of the world’s foremost online privacy problem-solvers. ![]() ![]() Since then, his own startup has achieved just that, going from 8 million queries a day to 36 million. The Citizen wrote about DuckDuckGo in 2015, shortly before Weinberg published his book Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Growth. ![]() Paoli's DuckDuckGo is taking on Google (with help from Edward Snowden). ![]()
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