For browsers and as app: New tracking blocker from DuckDuckGo

[Togijak]

 

If you want to block advertising and trackers easily and user-friendly, you should look at a new offer from the search engine DuckDuckGo. With a browser extension or a mobile app can be understood how encrypted data is encrypted and which trackers are active on visited websites.

 

The search engine "DuckDuckGo" has a new offer for users of Firefox, Safari, Chrome and iOS and Android: a browser extension or browser app that blocks advertising and thus provides more security and privacy. Both are available open source at Github. On the websites visited, the browser extension showed how the data to be transmitted is encrypted and which trackers are active there. In addition, a scale gives a privacy rating.

 

According to DuckDuckGo, trackers can be found by Google, for example, at 76 percent of websites, and Facebook still has 24 percent. For people who are not logged in to Facebook and Google all day long, there is not only ad blocking, but also additional information about embedded objects in webpages ("embed ads") that connect to ad networks:

    Our Privacy Protection wants to block all the hidden trackers we can find, exposing you over time, so that you can track who's trying to track you.

    (Our privacy protection will block any hidden trackers we can find and point out the big ad networks that keep track of you over a longer period of time, so you can track who is trying to track you.)

 

The app also blocks annoying display advertising. The new range of DuckDuckGo is user-friendly and clearly arranged. In addition, quite practical for data security: It enforces an encrypted connection via https, even if you first call the website unencrypted via http.

Not just against tracking

DuckDuckGo is known to renounce the spying on its own users, records no searches and also gives no data on the requests to third parties. However, advertising is shown, but this is not accompanied by tracking. Of course you can continue to use the search engine with the new app, without sacrificing his privacy.

 

For the new offer, the search engine is working with the "Terms of Service Did not Read" project to provide information on the often difficult-to-understand terms of use. TOSDR, which offer its own browser extension, provide for DuckDuckGo the listed values of the privacy scale. The focus of the evaluation, however, is not on Europe. Therefore, the terms of use and data transfer may differ from those in the United States.

 

Google translation from https://netzpolitik.org/2018/fuer-browser-und-als-app-neuer-tracking-blocker-von-duckduckgo/

 

AddOn Homepage https://duckduckgo.com/app

Source Code etc https://github.com/duckduckgo/

[snf]

Download :

 

Chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/duckduckgo-privacy-essent/bkdgflcldnnnapblkhphbgpggdiikppg?hl=en-US

Version: 2018.1.25

Updated: January 26, 2018

 

Addons.mozilla : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-for-firefox/

Version

2018.1.25

Last updated

3 days ago (Jan 25, 2018)

[straycat19]

16 hours ago, snf said:

Addons.mozilla : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-for-firefox/

Version

2018.1.25

Last updated

3 days ago (Jan 25, 2018)

 

Will not install on the ESR version of Firefox, you have to be using at least version 57 to use this.

[DKT27]

The founder of the above search engine and it's staff did an question and answers thing. Worth going through it.

[Katzenfreund]

DuckDuckGo , if it keeps its undertakings, is a valuable search tool worth using on suitable occasions. But to compete with champion spy Google and impose itself on the web, it has to also find the required results with high probability, something that apparently is not the case yet. But I wish it the success it deserves.