DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Focus search engine introduces new features that will block third-party applications from tracking your data.
In blog posts that are prohibited without hold, Duckduckgo said that this tool aims to increase user privacy.
“This hidden application tracker is very scary because they can track everything you do in an application and can also keep track of you even when you don’t use the application,” Record the company in a blog post.
This feature is quite ‘inspired’ by the Transparency of Apple application tracking on an iPhone that gives users the choice to allow third-party application tracking or not.
DuckDuckGo features only present for Android phones and reasoning companies that most smartphone users worldwide use Android, where there are no similar features.
“In fact, advertisers now spend more money for Android it seems because it is now easier to track you there,” Duckduckgo said.
The anti-tracking feature is now in the beta version for Android applications from search engines.
How will this feature function on Android? After the user activates the application tracking protection, the DuckDuckGO application will detect when the Android application will send data to a third-party tracking company found in the App tracker dataset, and blocking the request.
“You can enjoy your application as usual and the application tracking protection will run in the background and continue to block the tracker detected throughout your application, even when you sleep.
We continue to work to identify and protect from new trackers, so you can rest easily Knowing that you get the latest protection, “said Duckduckgo on the blog.
DuckDuckGo has explained that the protection of tracking applications is not a virtual personal network (VPN), even though your device will recognize it as one.
Application tracking protection is different from VPN because it has never routed application data through an external server, said Duckduckgo.
At present, this feature is in the Beta private waiting list.
This is the way you can get DuckDuckGo download features for Android (or update to the latest version).
Open Settings> Application tracking protection (in the privacy section).
Click “Join the private waiting list.”