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duckduckgo-privacy-extension is a free, open source browsers & extensions project written in JavaScript and released under Apache-2.0. It has 1,494 GitHub stars, 333 forks and 198 open issues, and was last pushed 7 days ago. On this registry it ranks #87 of 101 tracked projects in Browsers & Extensions, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available.

DuckDuckGo Browser Extensions

Build Status

DuckDuckGo Firefox, Chrome, and Edge extensions.

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DuckDuckGo Privacy Extensions is distributed under the Apache 2.0 License.

Latest Versions

Safari

The code for the Safari extension is an Xcode project which you can find here.

The Safari extension can be installed from the App Store.

Other browsers

If you use another Chromium-based browser like Vivaldi, you can usually install the Chrome version.

Reporting a broken site

Report broken sites using the anonymous "Report Broken Site" link in the extension popup.

Reporting bugs

See Reporting bugs.

Development

We're not accepting new feature pull requests right now. For bug fixes see Development.

Questions or help with the search engine

See help pages.

Frequently asked questions

Is duckduckgo-privacy-extension free to use?

duckduckgo-privacy-extension is open source under the Apache-2.0 licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does duckduckgo-privacy-extension do?

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials browser extension for Firefox, Chrome.

What is duckduckgo-privacy-extension written in?

duckduckgo-privacy-extension is primarily written in JavaScript. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-privacy-extension, and it has 1,494 GitHub stars.