An Audit Found That DuckDuckGo’s VPN Doesn’t Track User Activity

DuckDuckGo’s whole shtick is privacy, so it isn’t surprising that the company makes its own VPN—so long as you pay for it. Now, there are a lot of VPNs out there, and the best ones do typically require a fee, but it would seen on the surface that DuckDuckGo’s offerings were as solid a choice as any other similar service. Of course, there’s always the question of privacy and security anytime you use a service like this: How well is this VPN really working? Is the company behind it secretly accessing my browsing data as I use the app?

DuckDuckGo seems to be confident in this area: The company hired independent cybersecurity firm Securitum to conduct an audit of its “no-logs” policy, which means that no user data, incluiding activity, timestamps, or metadata, is logged or stored on the company’s egress servers—on the infrastructure used when moving data outside of

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