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Originally Posted by Tishabet View Post
They make their money the same way as every other search engine you've ever heard of: ads.
https://help.duckduckgo.com/company/advertising-and-affiliates/?redir=1
yep.

You can turn off a lot of ad's, and they still are less pushy than booble.

Depending on settings you will have your "speed-dial" favorites suddenly having a travel site saved, for example, after searching Tahiti overwater bungalows.
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