In November, DuckDuckGo launched a tracker blocker in private beta for Android users, which prevents third-party trackers inside mobile apps from sending data about users’ activity out to sometimes unknown parties. In July, it launched a beta version of Email Protection, a mail-forwarding product designed to give users some anonymity when they sign up for different services online.
Instead of just being a privacy-first search engine or browser - it also launched a Chrome extension and mobile browser in 2018 - Weinberg wants DuckDuckGo to become what Weinberg calls “the easy button” for privacy on the internet. Weinberg used some of that money to bootstrap his current venture, DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused technology company which, after years of focusing on its search engine, started expanding further beyond its core product last year. In 2006, back when Facebook was a college curiosity that still hadn’t moved off campuses, Weinberg, a graduate of MIT, sold The Names Database, a kind of proto-social network whose tagline was “Making the World a Smaller place,” to for $10 million.
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