The Day We Fight Back: How DuckDuckGo protested federal surveillance

DuckDuckGo‘s logo has linked back to thedaywefightback.org since Tuesday.

It was the company’s way of participating in The Day We Fight Back, a mass protest against the federal government’s surveillance program.

DuckDuckGo, the Paoli-based search engine that vows not to track you, was one of more than 6,000 websites that signed up for the protest, along with sites like Tumblr, Imgur and Reddit.

The New York Times reported that many sites didn’t do much for the protest, compared to past online protests against bills like SOPA and PIPA, but seemed to have missed DuckDuckGo’s contribution. Read The Washington Post’s take on this protest, a fight that’s “more challenging” than those against SOPA and PIPA, here.

DuckDuckGo exploded after news of the NSA’s surveillance program broke last summer. It hit one billion searches in 2013. Founder Gabe Weinberg is seen as a champion of a more private web in the eyes of people like reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian.