Your apps keep collecting data about you, mostly to find information that can be used to display advertising, but there are companies like DuckDuckGo who care about our privacy, and demonstrates this with the launch of its powerful new tool against creepers.
After several months of testing, DuckDuckGo eliminate the waiting list and launch Application Tracking Protection for all android users. The popular privacy-focused search engine and web browser finally launches its protection against applicant tracking.
This is DuckDuckGo’s App Tracking Protection
Via the latest version of the browser DuckDuckGo for Android we can activate the beta of your Application Tracking Protectiona tool that can be found in the settings of the candidacy.
this tool detect and block third-party trackers in our applications, preventing other companies from collecting personal information from our applications and obtaining add more privacy to our android mobile.
To do this, create a local VPN connection, that is, it will be our own device that will detect the trackers, thus avoiding having to send data to the DuckDuckGo servers, so there is no data redirection. Everything happens on our mobile.
Once the Protection against applicant tracking We will see which applications are protected against trackers and which ones have protection disabled due to compatibility issues. For most applications, protection will be enabled. The user can manually activate and deactivate this protection for each of the applications.
DuckDuckGo It will show us tracking attempts and apps that have wanted to be tracked by other companies. In the “Activity” section, we can see which apps and companies have tried to track us.
According to DuckDuckGo, an average Android user has 35 apps installed on their phone. Through its testing, a phone with 35 apps can experience between 1,000 and 2,000 tracking attempts each day through over 70 different tracking companies.
DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser
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