As internet privacy concerns have grown so has DuckDuckGo with over ten million daily searches on average. However, in a recent tweet, DDG founder and CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, stated that the company would update its search algorithm to down-rank Russian disinformation sites and they would pause its relationship with the Russian-state-owned search engine Yandex. This has outraged some users.

I think every American should know that in 2009 then Google CEO Eric Schmidt, stated, “If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines—including Google—do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.” To me, that sounds like a statement from a high Soviet or Chinese official—not an American.

While you surf the internet you’re being watched. If you use Chrome, by far the most popular browser, Google is watching. Safari reports to Apple and Edge to Microsoft. Those three browsers make up eighty-five percent of the user market.