According to its own statement, DuckDuckGo recorded more than 102 million search requests in one day for the first time in January. In the year 2020 the average of daily search queries increased by 62 percent. In January 2021 users made an average of 90 million requests a day

DuckDuckGo advertises to be completely anonymous: Accordingly, the search engine does not save any personal data of the users. With every search the user should have an empty search history, as if he had never accessed the search engine before. In contrast to its competitor Google, no user profiles should be created and advertisements should be displayed on the basis of this. Therefore, DuckDuckGo cannot specify the number of users but only the amount of search queries.

Data protection is becoming more important The now opposite Bleeping Computer announced increases refer to more and more people, for whom the protection of their personal data is important. And who are becoming more critical of the IT giants from the USA.

The fact that the topic of data protection is becoming more and more relevant was recently also shown by the run on messenger services like Signal: WhatsApp previously wanted to force approval of its new data protection guidelines which states that data will be passed on to other Facebook services. WhatsApp frightened so many users that the chat service decided last to postpone the introduction of the new data protection guideline. You want to ensure clarity first.

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