From our public ads page, ‘Microsoft Advertising does not associate your ad-click behaviour with a user profile’. For ads, we worked with Microsoft to make ad clicks protected. He wrote: “When you load our search results, you are completely anonymous, including ads. The DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg responded by saying it is working with Microsoft make sure third-party trackers are blocked on Microsoft-owned companies such as those mentioned by Edwards. However, DuckDuckGo has attempted to provide the context for the arrangement: It actually worked with Microsoft to help make ad clicks protected and the limited tracking is a side-effect it’s attempting to rectify. It’s not a great look for a company that preaches so earnestly about the public’s right for their activity not to be tracked across the web.

You can capture data within the DuckDuckGo so-called private browser on a website like Facebook's and you'll see that DDG does NOT stop data flows to Microsoft's Linkedin domains or their Bing advertising domains.

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