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2025 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1.1M to privacy and digital competition non-profits around the world DuckDuckGo News 2025 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1.1M to privacy and digital competition non-profits around the world 2025 marks DuckDuckGo's 15th year of donations—our annual program to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online. We are proud to donate to a Dax 7 min read

Yes AI or No AI, that is the question Many people want to opt out of AI features right now, but most tech companies are ignoring them. At DuckDuckGo our approach to AI is to only make AI features that are useful, private, and optional . Whether you are Yes AI or No AI, or somewhere in between, we think you deserve a product that gives you the option of whether or not to use AI features. Today we officially launched VoteYesOrNoAi.com , where you can personally weigh in on this question in a live public vote tallied anonymously by country and U.S. state. Where do you stand? We’ve also created two new versions of our search engine that tune settings to cater to both sides: noai.duckduckgo.com - turns off Search Assist, buttons to Duck.ai, and automatically turns on the hide AI images filter. yesai.duckduckgo.com - tunes Search Assist to often, features Duck.ai on the homepage, and turns off the hide AI images filter. You can also customize the search settings at duckduckgo.com for something in between. Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts or get the audio version . Share

2025 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations: $1.1M to privacy and digital competition non-profits around the world 2025 marks DuckDuckGo's 15th year of donations—our annual program to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online. We are proud to donate to a diverse group of organizations around the world that promote privacy and security, digital competition, and a healthier online ecosystem. This year, we’re donating $1,100,000, bringing DuckDuckGo's total donations since 2011 to $8,050,000 . Everyone using the Internet deserves simple and accessible online protection; these organizations are all pushing to make that a reality. We encourage you to check out their valuable work below. $100,000 to Public Knowledge Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy on behalf of the public interest. $75,000 to ARTICLE 19 ARTICLE 19 is an international think-do organisation, that takes its name from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and works to propel the freedom of expression movement, fighting censorship, defending dissenting voices and advocating against laws and practices that silence. $75,000 to the Digital Progress Institute The Digital Progress Institute seeks to bridge the tech-telecom policy divide through incremental, bipartisan measures in line with its principles of bringing about ubiquitous broadband, 5G and beyond, privacy for every American, real competition in digital markets, and a full-stack framework for Internet policy issues. $50,000 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. $50,000 to European Digital Rights (EDRi) With more than two decades of advocacy experience, European Digital Rights (EDRi) is the go-to, nongovernmental network working on EU and national laws and policies on privacy, freedom of expression, participation online, data protection and technology policy. EDRi unites over 50 orga...

The DuckDuckGo subscription now includes more advanced AI chat models, along with VPN & more More advanced AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other providers are now available in Duck.ai as part of the DuckDuckGo subscription, formerly known as Privacy Pro. Subscribers can now access OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta’s Llama Maverick – and supercharge productivity at work, school, or home. The DuckDuckGo subscription is still the same price: $9.99 USD a month or $99 USD a year. On top of access to premium AI models on Duck.ai, it still includes our VPN, Personal Information Removal, and Identity Theft Restoration*. Sign up at duckduckgo.com/subscribe for a seven-day free trial. Keep an eye out for higher DuckDuckGo subscription tiers in the future with access to even more advanced AI models. A layer of protection for everything you do online – including AI We believe the best way to protect your personal information from hackers, scammers, and privacy-invasive companies is to stop it from being collected at all. To make that happen, we offer a layer of protection for everything you do online. Our browser, for example, is packed with a suite of built-in privacy protections , including our search engine that never tracks you. Our growing suite of private, useful, and optional AI tools is the next evolution. AI tools have quickly become a significant part of people's online experience, but there’s a gap between how often we use AI, and how safe and in control we feel about it. According to recent Pew research , 27% of US adults use AI tools every day, but 59% feel no control over how AI shows up in their lives. That's why we created Duck.ai , which gives you access to popular AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Mistral, with the following added protections built by us: Anonymized chats . We call model providers on your behalf, so personal information like your IP address is not exposed to them. No AI training . Your data is never used to train the AI models. Local chat storage . Chats and settings stay on your device t...