DuckDuckGo beta testing Android anti-tracking tool

[Jan]

DuckDuckGo launching anti-tracking tool for Android

Privacy-focused Internet search engine company DuckDuckGo has launched an App Tracking Protection tool on its Android app.

The feature — currently in beta — blocks third-party trackers across the user's apps, even when they are not being used.

 

[Robyn628]

Does the search engine require the use of ads?

 

[Skerminkel]

DuckDuckGo said its tests found that the average Android user’s smartphone with 35 apps experienced between 1,000–2,000 tracking attempts every day and contacted 70+ tracking companies.

I don't have Facebook installed, so my phone should attract only half of those attempts.
Anyway, good luck to DDG - my default search engine since the beginning of this year as well as my default "please provide your email to access this service" email provider.

 

[Vorastra]

Fck DDG for curating their search results by down-ranking right-wing sites.

Either way, there's already an extremely good and verbose app that does this and it's open source and free.

TrackerControl.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Does the search engine require the use of ads?

Yes, and no, it does non-tracking private ad placements though it can be search-keyword targeted it doesn't use you, the user, as a persona to sell, but it is still persona-based marketing since it is your own-typed keywords.

 

[heinrikur]

Installed it on my phone today. I'm shocked that EskomSePush tries to track me more than Facebook Lite.