A DuckDuckGo spokesperson confirmed to TorrentFreak that the issues its search engine recently experienced were related to Bing data.Īlthough you can now once again search for popular torrenting sites on DuckDuckGo, downloading movies, TV shows, games and other software isn’t just illegal but you also run the risk of having your system infected with malware (opens in new tab) and other viruses. While DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine, it actually uses data from Bing (opens in new tab) for its search results. Our site: operator (which hardly anyone uses) is having issues which we are looking into.” “We are not 'purging' YouTube-dl or The Pirate Bay and they both have actually been continuously available in our results if you search for them by name (which most people do). Read Politics news, current affairs and news headlines online on Duckduckgo News. In a tweet (opens in new tab), DuckDuckGo founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg (opens in new tab) explained that the issue was caused by the company’s site operator and not be it delisting pirate domains in its search results, saying: Get all the latest news and updates on Duckduckgo only on. > Here's another excellent reason not to pirate your software (opens in new tab) > DuckDuckGo founder says privacy needs to be as simple as a single button press This Google Chrome challenger could be the best browser for private surfing (opens in new tab)

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