After security researcher Zach Edwards 1st realized & tweeted about it, privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo is trying to douse the fire.
Zach tweeted:
Sometimes you find something so disturbing during an audit, you’ve gotta check/recheck because you assume that something must be broken in the test. But I’m confident now. The new @DuckDuckGo browsers for iOS/Android don’t block Microsoft data flows, for LinkedIn or Bing.
To that DuckDuckGo has acknowledged what Zach has said, adding it was trying to address the new concerns.
DuckDuckGo: Why our browsers won’t block Microsoft trackers – theregister.com
DuckDuckGo promises privacy to users of its Android, iOS browsers, and macOS browsers – yet it allows certain data to flow from third-party websites to Microsoft-owned services. Security researcher Zach Edwards recently conducted an audit of DuckDuckGo’s mobile browsers and found that, contrary to expectations, they do not block Meta’s Workplace domain, for example, from sending information to Microsoft’s Bing and LinkedIn domains.
Link: DuckDuckGo: Why our browsers won’t block Microsoft trackers
via www.theregister.com
