Re:DuckDuckGo wants to stop apps tracking you on Android
by Clockface12 on Monday November 22, 2021 @09:33AM
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"DuckDuckGo says its analysis of popular free Android apps shows more than 96 percent of them contain trackers. Blocking these trackers means Facebook and Google, whose trackers are some of the most prominent, can’t send data back to the mothership—neither will the dozens of advertising networks you’ve never heard of." Sounds good.
Re:DuckDuckGo wants to stop apps tracking you on Android
by jcynix on Monday November 22, 2021 @12:52PM
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Hmm, I'm already using NetGuard on Android, which creates an internal VPN where I can block and log network access of other apps.
I'm curious how DuckDuckGo' s solution intends to work, will they do this too? There are no other options I could think of, as apps are confined to their sandbox otherwise.
Re:DuckDuckGo wants to stop apps tracking you on Android
by joe__f on Monday November 22, 2021 @10:56AM
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This looks great. I understood that DuckDuckGo was a search engine, is the idea that they're planning to release an Android app with this functionality which blocks tracking from other apps?
I'm curious how DuckDuckGo' s solution intends to work, will they do this too? There are no other options I could think of, as apps are confined to their sandbox otherwise.