{"id":423850,"date":"2021-11-22T09:26:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=423850"},"modified":"2021-11-22T09:27:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:27:27","slug":"duckduckgo-privacy-tool-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/423850-duckduckgo-privacy-tool-for-android.html","title":{"rendered":"DuckDuckGo privacy tool for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DuckDuckGo is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/spreadprivacy.com\/introducing-app-tracking-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rolling out a tool<\/a><\/strong> to allow users of its Android app to block hidden trackers on their devices.<\/p>\n<p>It said that its &#8220;App Tracking Protection for Android&#8221; feature would help reduce the targeted advertising that Android users see.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea is we block this data collection from happening from the apps the trackers don&#8217;t own,&#8221; said Peter Dolanjski, a director of product at DuckDuckGo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You should see far fewer creepy ads following you around online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This will provide Android users with a similar experience to Apple&#8217;s &#8220;App Tracking Transparency&#8221; feature, allowing users to opt out of data tracking within apps.<\/p>\n<p>The tool is available through DuckDuckGo&#8217;s private browser application but will work across your device.<\/p>\n<p>DuckDuckGo said the tool would block &#8220;trackers it identifies in other apps from third-party companies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The company also said that the tool causes your device to behave like a virtual private network (VPN).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is because App Tracking Protection uses a local &#8216;VPN connection&#8217; which means that it works its magic right on your smartphone,&#8221; DuckDuckGo explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, App Tracking Protection is different from VPNs because it never routes app data through an external server.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to DuckDuckGo, more than 96% of some of the most popular Android apps contain trackers of which users are unaware.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/423546-voice-note-update-coming-to-whatsapp.html\">Voice note update coming to WhatsApp<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DuckDuckGo is rolling out a tool to block hidden trackers used for ad targeting on Android devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":423858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,69657,26900,691],"class_list":["post-423850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-app-tracking","tag-duckduckgo","tag-ios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423876,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423850\/revisions\/423876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}