DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials

Simple and seamless privacy protection for your browser.

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials is available to install from Chrome Web Store and for download from this page. It has 5,000,000+ active users The latest version is 2024.10.16, and it was published a month ago.

Install from Chrome Web Store

View source code

Total download count: 735 (Only count downloads from Chrome-Stats)

All available versions

You can find the current and older versions of DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials here. You can download the archived versions or inspect their source codes.

As a free user, you can only download the latest version.

Upgrade to download older versions

78 versions available for download.

Install CRX file

Option 1: The easy way (for Windows users only)

Download and run chrome-stats.exe file on your PC. This method will allow you to install Chrome extensions directly from chrome-stats.com in one click. You only need to do this once!
Type in chrome://restart in the URL bar to restart the browser for the changes to take effect.
Download and install the DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials CRX file

Option 2: Advanced method

Download DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials CRX file
NOTE: Sometimes the browser may block downloading / installing CRX file from outside the Chrome Web Store. If so, you may need to use option 1, or download the ZIP file instead.
In the URL bar, go to chrome://extensions
Enable Developer mode
Drag and drop the downloaded DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials CRX file into the Extensions page
When prompted, click Add extension to install DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials.

Install ZIP file

Download and unpack the DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials ZIP file to a directory of your choice.
In Chrome browser, go to chrome://extensions
Enable Developer mode.
Click on the Load Unpacked button.
Select the directory of with the unpacked DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials ZIP file from step 1. DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials is now installed on your browser.