The issue at hand is how DuckDuckGo fetches favicons, bookmark images associated with a website domain.įirst submitted as an issue in July 2019, GitHub user Tritonio flagged the offending script, saying: “This seems to be leaking all(?) the domains that users visit to your servers.” However, when founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg woke up on Thursday morning, he was met with a new narrative for the company – one that rode on a wave of concern and criticism relating to a ‘design flaw’ that could expose the information of users.
Privacy-focused search engine makes changes to favicon handling, per user requestĭuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused organization offering a popular search engine that doesn’t store results or personal information, in direct opposition to Google.
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