The changes to the privacy policy that WhatsApp announced for this year have aroused several criticisms from internet users that have led to a search for platforms and applications that ensure privacy and security when using them.
This is reflected in the accelerated increase in downloads from platforms that claim to be much more private and collect less information.
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Amid all of this, one of the beneficiaries is the search engine DuckDuckGo, Google’s rival, which announced last week that for the first time in its 12 years of existence 100 million searches in one day.
That figure represents, according to the company’s published values, double growth compared to the average number of searches per day in January 2020.
DuckDuckGo has had a premise since it hit the market: to maintain the privacy of its users, ever since does not collect information about the activity performed by the person, as with other browsers.
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Among other things, this platform works as an extension for Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari, where it has the alternative of blocking trackers and encryption. Likewise, there is a browser alternative for Android and iOS devices.
The company has stated that they are they don’t make a history of the people who navigate their search engine, with which you can create a profile so that the data is not used for advertising purposes.
Likewise, it includes features that Google has for maps, local business answers, images, videos, question-answer relationships, currency conversions, sporting event data, and flight data.
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