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Inside DuckDuckGo

Behind the scenes with the DuckDuckGo team — sharing insights on product, engineering, leadership, and AI.

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Duck Tales: The DuckDuckGo Subscription Pro-tier — private AI for AI power users (Ep.41)

The Pro-tier of the DuckDuckGo Subscription is for AI power users, with higher limits, an exclusive model, and extended reasoning. As always, AI in DuckDuckGo is optional.

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Duck Tales: How we're making it easier to use Duck.ai, our private AI chat. (Ep.40)

We've shipped a run of upgrades that make Duck.ai easier to use, including a simplified and more user friendly model picker.

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Duck Tales: How we use mental models and operational defaults to improve decision making (Ep.39)

Operational defaults: What are they, how they accelerate decision making, and why we encourage people to challenge them.

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Duck Tales: Our first major Duck.ai ad, and how we develop creative at DuckDuckGo (Ep.38)

Prying Eyes is our new ad for Duck.ai, our private AI chat. We discuss the thinking, process and team behind it.

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Duck Tales: The DuckDuckGo browser now blocks ads on YouTube videos, so you can watch without interruption (Ep.37)

Our browser blocks invasive web ads, cookie pop-ups and now most video ads, including on YouTube.

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Duck Tales: AI in the DuckDuckGo browser — private, useful & optional (Ep.36)

How we integrate AI into our browser in a way that users value and can control.

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Duck Tales: AI optionality, and why DuckDuckGo installs are up ~40% since Google swapped search for AI mode (Ep.35)

At DuckDuckGo, we believe AI should always be optional, not an obligation.

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Duck Tales: Voice-mode in Duck.ai. The private, hands-free way to chat with popular AIs (Ep.34)

For longer prompts or hands-free chats with AI, voice mode is often easier. Now those voice chats can be private, with Duck.ai.

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Duck Tales: How we've made it easier to generate images privately in Duck.ai (Ep.33)

Image generation is just as private as before, but with an improved user experience.

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Duck Tales: Dax (our mascot) is coming to the physical world, on shoes, shirts, and security keys (Ep.32).

We’ve launched our first set of branded collaborations with Cotton Bureau (shirts), Atoms (shoes) and Yubico (security keys).

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