Question 1

Why pay, when DuckDuckGo and Brave give this away free?

Accepted Answer

Be precise about what they give away, because it is a lot and it is good. Duck.ai anonymises you to the model, keeps recent chats on your device rather than their servers, and does not train on prompts — that is a real privacy product, and on anonymity it does something we do not claim to beat. What it cannot change is the model itself. Your message still goes to Claude, Llama or GPT, so the refusal arrives with the weights: it was trained in, and no amount of anonymity in front of it alters what comes back. Removing it would mean hosting open models and answering for what they say, which is not a trade a browser company makes. So the difference is not privacy. It is whether you get an answer.

Question 2

If I pay, do you know who I am?

Accepted Answer

The processor does — your card carries your name. We hold a reference to that payment, but it is sealed with a key kept outside the database, so a copy of our data resolves to nothing. Be clear about the limit: the running server holds that key, so we could be compelled to ask the processor who paid. What nobody can produce is the conversation, because it was never written down.

Question 3

What if I lose my key?

Accepted Answer

Re-enter the card you paid with and we will hand you a new one. There is no email on file to send anything to, and we would rather not put your key in an inbox. Recovery issues a fresh key rather than showing the old one — if it was lost, there is no way to know who else has a copy. Your balance moves across with it.

Question 4

Can you actually not see my conversations?

Accepted Answer

They live in your browser tab and nowhere else. Requests are proxied to zero-retention inference in memory and are never written to disk, so there is no transcript on our side to read, leak, subpoena or train on. This is a property of how it is built, not a policy we promise to keep.

Question 5

Do you train on anything I write?

Accepted Answer

No — not the models we serve, not a future one, not an evaluation set. Every model runs under a no-retention agreement, and there is no setting to get wrong because there is nothing retained to feed in.

Question 6

What will it refuse to do?

Accepted Answer

It answers the question you asked, including the ones other assistants deflect to a professional. That is not a licence for anything: it will not help you hurt somebody, and the models still have their own limits. The difference is that it treats you as an adult who can be told the thing and decide what to do with it.

Question 7

What happens if I stop paying?

Accepted Answer

The plan runs to the end of the period you paid for and then stops. Credits you bought outright never expire and keep working after that — they are yours, not a subscriber perk. Nothing renews without you.

Question 8

Does this hide that I use it?

Accepted Answer

No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. Your network can see that you connected here, even though it cannot see what was said. If that matters for your situation, reach us over a VPN or Tor.

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