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Coincidence. All searches with us are 100% anonymous. Or if the post on X you are referring to was an ad, it's possible an entity outside of the search engine you use was able to track you. But it could not possibly be via DuckDuckGo.

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We've checked in with Knockaround and due to the high demand and high rate of sales, they oversold by a few units. Their customer service team has already reached out to those orders, so please check for an email from Knockaround. Thank you 

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Hi there! We appreciate the conversation, and would like to address what you've mentioned.

On US jurisdiction: You're right that we're a US company subject to US law. As our privacy policy states, "Critically, it's not possible for us to provide search, chat, or browsing histories linked to you in response to legal requests because we don't have them."

On privacy claims: We don't just market privacy; our claims have been independently reviewed by the National Advertising Division (NAD), a process where unsubstantiated claims get referred directly to the FTC. A third-party expert confirmed that our encryption, tracker blocking, and private searches protect against the three largest categories of personal data collectors. We also heavily document our privacy protections, for example Web Tracking Protections in this extensive help page and our browsers and those protections are open source (with relevant repositories linked from that help page). At a higher level we made this page to compare browsers and extensions from a privacy perspective.

On search quality and Bing: We've never hidden that some of our web links come from Bing, but we're significantly more than that now. We've been building our own web index for the past two years. Beyond links, a lot of modern search results aren't links at all, and much of that we don't source from Bing: local results, maps, knowledge panels, sports, weather, and AI-related results all come from other sources or our own technology. When you factor in privacy protection and our different design and user experience, DuckDuckGo functions as a fundamentally different search engine.