DuckDuckGo wants to stop apps tracking you on Android(wired.com)
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DuckDuckGo wants to stop apps tracking you on Android
https://www.wired.com/story/duckduckgo-android-app-tracking-block/
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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.
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.
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.
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?