![]() ![]() Google recently followed in Apple’s footsteps and has started making it more difficult for apps to collect data on users by “restricting them from accessing users’ Advertising ID after they have opted out of tracking”.DuckDuckGo has attracted an audience that is fed up with Big Tech and has won over some conservatives searching for alternatives to Google. While DuckDuckGo cannot essentially change “the internal configuration of Android devices” and cannot provide the “same app tracking permission prompts that appear on Android and iOS”, but combined with the privacy settings that already exist in these devices, the tool can help you better protect user data. ![]() ![]() The company said that it is going to give more people access to the tool every week. You can join the waitlist from the DuckDuckGo Android app. The company added that in its internal tests they have found that more than 96 per cent of Android's popular free apps have third-party trackers and 87 per cent of these send user data to Google while 68 per cent send it to Facebook.ĭuckDuckGo’s App Tracking Protection tool is currently in beta mode and if you want to test it you can join a private waitlist. The DuckDuckGo app is going to offer a real-time view of the trackers the App Tracking Protection has blocked and also mention where the data would have gone. However, App Tracking Protection is different from VPNs because it never routes app data through an external server,” the company explained in its blog. “This is because App Tracking Protection uses a local ‘VPN connection’ which means that it works its magic right on your smartphone. To explain it better, DuckDuckGo said that the tool is going to make a phone behave like a virtual private network (VPN) though the App Tracking Protection isn’t one. ![]() The company added that it is “continually working to identify and protect against new trackers”. DuckDuckGo says that the tool can recognise when an app is about to send data to a third-party tracker and will prevent the app from collecting user’s data. ![]()
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