DuckDuckGo likes to bill itself as a privacy-centric search engine and web browser, and it is hard to deny that it is more private than the likes of Google search and Chrome. But earlier this year, it came to light that there was an agreement in place between the company and Microsoft that meant the DuckDuckGo browser did not block trackers from the maker of Windows 11.
Mozilla, the company behind the popular Firefox web browser, has slammed a Safari privacy feature and dubbed it "a poor trade-off between user privacy" and the functionality needed by web advertisers.