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You can read duck.ai's terms of service.
https://duckduckgo.com/duckai/privacy-terms
Would it just be the IP addresses then?
It conceals the IP, too.
I should clarify, I meant to ask if the main thing it's doing is taking care of the IP addresses/browser trackers
What they're doing is helpful, but I believe it's limited to sending them queries and having them contact the LLM provider on our behalf. If there is any personal information in the queries we send (ex. Passwords, secrets, names), those are passed along to the provider.
As opposed to something like Confer (which isn't out yet), where the provider can't see anything
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/signal-creator-moxie-marlinspike-wants-to-do-for-ai-what-he-did-for-messaging/