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==Criticism==

==Criticism==

Despite its dedication to user privacy, [[One America News Network]] claimed that, through cookies and targeted advertising, the search engine may be tracking users after all, contrary to its claims and despite its innovations.<ref>https://www.oann.com/watch-private-browser-duckduckgo-may-be-giving-your-data-to-google/</ref>

Despite its dedication to user privacy, [[One America News Network]] claimed that, through cookies and targeted advertising, the search engine may be tracking users after all, contrary to its claims and despite its innovations.<ref>https://www.oann.com/watch-private-browser-duckduckgo-may-be-giving-your-data-to-google/</ref><br />

The platform has also been criticized for not encrypting search terms, which would be complex to implement but but should be possible. However, they do offer an optional setting to send search terms by POST, which helps conceal them.<ref>https://duckduckgo.com/settings#privacy</ref>  Additionally, some have pointed out that using DuckDuckGo still leaves traces on the local computer, such as which terms were searched and which results were viewed.  However, this is the case with any web browser, for any website or search engine.  This information can be manually purged from the browser, or a private browsing mode (if offered) can automatically delete this information.<ref>https://dzone.com/articles/duckduckgo-has-a-privacy-problem</ref>

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== References ==