DuckDuckGo treats its ad partners' dataflows differently

To be clear, when you load our search results, you are completely anonymous, including ads. For ads, we actually worked with Microsoft to make ad clicks privacy protected. From our public ads page, "Microsoft Advertising does not associate your ad-click behavior with a user profile." This page is linked to next to every Microsoft ad that is served on our search engine (duckduckgo.com). https://help.duckduckgo.com/company/ads-by-microsoft-on-duck...

In all our browsing apps (iOS/Android/Mac) we block third-party cookies, including those from Microsoft-owned properties like LinkedIn and Bing. Unfortunately, our Microsoft search syndication agreement prevents us from doing more than that, though we expect to be able do more soon. We've been tirelessly working behind the scenes to change these requirements, though our syndication agreement also has a confidentially provision that prevents disclosing details. Again, we expect to have an update soon that will include even more third-party protections. I understand this is confusing because it is a search syndication contract that is preventing us from doing non-search things, but that's because our product is a bundle of multiple privacy protections, and those are the distribution requirements imposed on us as part of the search syndication agreement.