Re:Tell HN: DuckDuckGo's privacy extension is injecting ads ...
by mustacheemperor on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:44PM
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To clarify, the decision I find mystifying is the one to promote this via a phishy-feeling inline pop-up. The choice to incorporate email tracking protection into the product makes sense to me.
Re:Tell HN: DuckDuckGo's privacy extension is injecting ads ...
by monetus on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:51PM
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Yeah, considering how it has caught people off guard, a toggle in the settings, maybe an overview of it in a splash screen on their site, something before the actual form fill shows up. I'm curious if they discussed that much. It definitely would have kept the feature more obscure, so you can guess at the push back.
Yegg discussed it the last time email protection came up on the front page - rolling it out internally into their android browser was the main goal, and the extension for others. The motivations are in the old hn posts. They could have rolled out a new app and extension, and maintained those on top of the current ones, but those would be extra codebases to maintain.