How do you protect yourself from being tracked Online? Deploy a tracker blocker. Yet, very few Internet surfers use them, plus some of the blockers lack in quality.
Privacy-oriented search engine Duck Duck Go has now released a tracker blocker.
Here’s the announcement:
….we built seamless tracker protection into our DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser mobile apps (for iOS/Android) and into our DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials desktop browser extensions (for Chrome/Firefox/Safari). They allow you to to seamlessly search and browse privately across all of your devices. They contain what we call the “privacy essentials” — tracker blocking, private search, and upgraded website encryption — all in one package.
When we set out to add tracker protection, we found that existing lists of trackers were mostly manually curated, which meant they were often stale and never comprehensive. And, even worse, those lists sometimes break websites, which hinders mainstream adoption. So, over the last couple of years we built our own data set of trackers based on a crawling process that doesn’t have these drawbacks. We call it DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar. It is automatically generated, constantly updated, and continually tested.
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