DuckDuckGo continues to promote user rights, donating some $1.1 million to groups pr𒈔omoting privacy, digital rights, and a better internet.

Once known primarily as an alternative, privacy-focused search engine, DuckDuckGo has been expand🐈ing its reach, developing꧒ an entire suite of applications and services aimed at helping individuals preserve their privacy.

In a year-end rev💙i🤡ew, DuckDuckGo has that it donated some $1.1 million in 2024 to a variety of privacy and digital rights causes, as well as to projects that play a fundamental role in the internet. The list of recipients includes:

• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
• Public Knowledge
• Article 19
• Demand Progress
• European Digital Rights
• Fight for the Future
• The Markup
• OpenMedia
• Restore the Fourth
• Signal
• Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P)
• Tech Policy Press
• Tech Oversight Project
• Algorithmic Justice League (AJL)
• Bit of Freedom
• British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)
• Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
• Create Commons (CC)
• Digital Rights Watch
• Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF)
• nyob
• Open Home Foundation
• Open Rights Group
• Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF)
• Perl and Raku Foundation
• Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
• Proof
• Tor Project

The dona𝓡tions range from $100,000 🐬to the EFF, to $75,000 to Public Knowledge, several $50,000 donations, and the rest coming in at $25,000.

Even more telling, DuckDuckGo has donated $6,950,000 𒅌since 2011.

DuckDuckGo Is Proof Privacy and Profit Can Coexist

In a tech industry that has become obsessed with monetizing people’s personal data, collecting it, and selling it wholesale, DuckDuckGo has continued to be a beacon of privacy, proving that companies can respect—even protect—user privacy and still be profitable.

In fact, DuckDuckGo donating millions to other projects and cau✨ses demonstꦦrates just how well the company is doing despite bucking the status quo.

Moving forward, more companies should take a page out of DuckDuckGo’s playbook, giving users control over their data, rather than exploiting it. Companies may just be surprised at how well such a course might be received.

In the meantime, DuckDuckGo is 🌼a company users should pay attention to, using their projects and services whenever possible.