DuckDuckGo x Original Duckhead: Two ducks, One limited-edition umbrella. Original Duckhead and DuckDuckGo have teamed up to create something a little unexpected: a limited-edition umbrella bringing together thoughtful design, online privacy and two rather iconic ducks. Known for its privacy-focused browser and search engine, DuckDuckGo believes that online privacy should be simple and accessible to everyone. It's an outlook that feels naturally at home with Original Duckhead: making thoughtful everyday choices easier, without compromising on design. The result? A limited-edition Original Duckhead umbrella made for keeping you covered, online and off. Two ducks. One shared outlook. Some collaborations almost write themselves. DuckDuckGo has spent years making it easier for people to take greater control of their privacy online, with easy-to-use privacy protections built into its browser and search experience. At Original Duckhead, Original Duckhead approach another everyday essential with a similar spirit: taking something familiar and rethinking it through considered materials, distinctive design and a little personality. Two very different worlds, connected by a shared belief that thoughtful everyday choices should be accessible to everyone. And, of course, there was the small matter of the ducks. A DuckDuckGo umbrella, naturally. The collaboration transforms its signature Duck Umbrella with a design created especially for DuckDuckGo. Against the black canopy, DuckDuckGo's unmistakable green footprint creates a bold graphic statement, while its signature birch wood duck-head handle completes a meeting of two icons. Look a little closer and you'll find details from both brands throughout, including the DuckDuckGo x Original Duckhead branding on the wrist strap. Playful without being loud, it's a design made to be recognised from across the street - even on the greyest of days. Less of a footprint. Thoughtful design goes beyond how something looks. The umbrella's canopy is made from SCS Recycled Content certified fabric, bringing the collaboration's playful duck footprint to a material designed with a lighter impact in mind. It's an approach that reflects something both brands believe in: making more considered choices part of everyday life. Naturally iconic. At the heart of the umbrella is its signature birch wood duck-head handle. Crafted for a natural finish and comfortable hold, the wooden handle has become one of Original Duckhead's most recognisable details and feels particularly fitting for a collaboration involving not one, but two ducks. Built to weather it. Designed for much more than good looks, the limited-edition DuckDuckGo umbrella features a strong, flexible steel and fibreglass frame made for everyday showers. The classic Original Duckhead silhouette keeps things compact and practical, while the distinctive black and green canopy makes sure it doesn't disappear into a sea of ordinary umbrellas. Rain forecast? Original Duckhead has got that covered. Covered, wherever you go. DuckDuckGo believes online privacy should be simple, accessible and part of everyday life. Whether you're browsing online or heading out into the rain, this collaboration brings together two different approaches to making the everyday a little more considered. Or, as DuckDuckGo Brand Designer Andy Barker puts it: "DuckDuckGo already blocks trackers. Now it blocks the rain too." Get yours before it rains. The DuckDuckGo x Original Duckhead Umbrella is a limited-edition collaboration and is available worldwide exclusively through Original Duckhead. Two ducks. One umbrella. Get yours while you can. DuckDuckGo x Original Duckhead FAQs. What is the DuckDuckGo x Original Duckhead collaboration? DuckDuckGo and Original Duckhead have teamed up to create an exclusive limited-edition Duck Umbrella. The collaboration brings together DuckDuckGo's privacy-first approach with Original Duckhead's distinctive design and signature duck-head handle. What does the DuckDuckGo umbrella look like? The umbrella features a black canopy with a bold green DuckDuckGo footprint, its signature birch wood duck-head handle and DuckDuckGo x Original Duckhead collaboration details. What is the DuckDuckGo umbrella made from? The canopy is made using SCS Recycled Content certified fabric, paired with a strong, flexible steel and fibreglass frame and its signature birch wood duck-head handle. Is the DuckDuckGo umbrella limited edition? Where can I buy the DuckDuckGo umbrella? The limited-edition DuckDuckGo x Original Duckhead Umbrella is available worldwide from Original Duckhead.

DuckDuckGo's free AI chat now rivals ChatGPT - no account required. Published Aug 24, 2026, 11:35 AM EDT Hamed holds a B.A. in English Literature, graduating cum laude. He loves music, tech gadgets, and exploring the latest in the world of LLMs. He also enjoys tinkering with creative software such as Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, and Photoshop. A lifelong musician, Hamed plays multiple instruments, including guitar, bass, and oud. He is equally fascinated by smart-home technology and can happily spend hours geeking out over connected lights, speakers, sensors, and automations that make everyday life a little more interesting. When he isn't covering the latest tech news, he explores more creative topics on his Medium blog, works on his music, or clears his head by riding his motorcycle. Summary. * Duck.ai now offers GPT-5.6 Luna as its default free model, with no account or login required. * DuckDuckGo anonymizes prompts and lets users switch between models including Claude Haiku 4.5, Mistral Small 4, and Gemma 4. * Duck.ai offers greater model variety than privacy-focused rivals, although Lumo or Confer may be safer for highly sensitive conversations. Using a big-name AI model normally means creating another account and trusting its developer with whatever you type. Duck.ai has offered a convenient way around that for a while, but its older free models made privacy come with a fairly noticeable performance compromise. Thankfully, that compromise is now easier to accept. DuckDuckGo has added OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna to Duck.ai and made it the default LLM for free users, giving you access to one of OpenAI's latest models without having to create an account or sign in. Duck.ai now offers several major AI models anonymously. GPT-5.6 Luna is the new default for free chats, but there's more. DuckDuckGo hasn't formally announced the change, but opening the official Duck.ai model selector now presents GPT-5.6 Luna as the recommended option for everyday use. The free selection also includes Claude Haiku 4.5, Mistral Small 4, GPT-5.4 mini, gpt-oss-120b, and Gemma-4-31B. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 has different models, and Luna is the smallest and most cost-efficient member of that family. Therefore, it shouldn't be confused with the more powerful Sol model that went shoulder to shoulder with Fable 5 in its test. DuckDuckGo also hasn't disclosed how much reasoning time Luna receives, so I wouldn't assume it matches the deeper reasoning configurations available elsewhere. Still, it should be more than capable enough for everyday questions and lightweight research. The important part is how Duck.ai handles your prompts. As MakeUseOf found when using DuckDuckGo's Windows browser, DuckDuckGo acts as an intermediary between you and the AI provider. It removes identifying metadata such as your IP address, making requests appear to come from DuckDuckGo instead of you. You don't need an account, DuckDuckGo doesn't store your chats on its servers by default, and its agreements prohibit providers from training their LLMS on your conversations. (I would like to believe that Johnny Silverhand from Cyberpunk 2077 would also use DuckDuckGo for everyday searches and inquieries.) In some cases, that gives Duck.ai a considerable advantage over visiting ChatGPT or Claude directly. More importantly, it lets you switch between models inside the same conversation. If Luna struggles with a writing prompt, for example, you can hand the conversation to Claude Haiku without copying everything into another chatbot. Can Duck.ai beat the competition? For highly sensitive conversations, Proton's Lumo is arguably the best option out there, which can also be considered as Duck.ai'ssest competitor. It offers guest access, keeps no logs, and uses zero-access encryption for saved chats (which does require a free Proton account). The downside is that Lumo relies on open-source models hosted by Proton. It doesn't let you jump between OpenAI and Anthropic models. Therefore, if a balance of privacy and answer quality is what you're looking for, Duck.ai can be a more versatile option. Confer is another compelling alternative. It protects conversations with end-to-end encryption and confidential computing. It also supports useful features such as web search, image generation, and memory. But again, it is designed around its own models rather than a menu of recognizable third-party LLMs. It's also recommended for people who don't want to deal with ads in ChatGPT. Duck.ai is a compelling private AI sampler, but it isn't a vault. Duck.ai now occupies an appealing middle ground: it is anonymous enough for ordinary questions, requires no account, and offers more model choice than its privacy-focused rivals. However, anonymity doesn't erase personal details that you include inside a prompt. For confidential documents or genuinely sensitive conversations, Lumo's encryption or a completely local model remains safer. For everything else, getting Luna and Claude in the same private interface is tough to beat.