DuckDuckGo and other ways to stay anonymous
A search engine that allows users to be anonymous has had a sharp increase in traffic after whistle-blower Edward Snowden said Washington – and Google – was watching our online patterns.
The Prism surveillance scandal ramped up DuckDuckGo, which calls itself a privacy-respecting alternate search service. “Google tracks you. We don’t,” runs one of its ads. One enterprising netizen has compiled a list of services, from social networks to email clients, and even web browsers, that offer better protection from surveillance.
The DuckDuckGo search engine does not save search history, date and time of the search, information about your computer (such as your IP address, or unique identifiers stored in browser cookies) or log-in data for other services (such as names and e-mail addresses).…
