To sign up for Email Protection, you'll need to use either the DuckDuckGo mobile app for iOS or Android, use DuckDuckGo's browser extension on Firefox, Chrome, Edge, or Brave, or use its beta Mac browser (the list for which must be joined in the DuckDuckGo mobile app). During their closed beta, DuckDuckGo claims that 85 percent of the emails it processed contained hidden trackers. Email sent to your address forwards to your chosen primary email-but with trackers removed.Įmail Protection now also fixes up links, strips them of tracking modifiers, upgrades unencrypted HTTP URLs to HTTPS where possible, and, for the rare necessary reply, allows you to send directly from your duck address instead of exposing your primary email. The service provides you a email address, one intended to be given out for the kind of 'Subscribe to our newsletter for 20 percent off' emails you know exist only to harvest data and target you for ads. It has also added a few more privacy tools. The application is a free download on the App Store.DuckDuckGo's tracker-removing email service, which has been available in private beta for a year, is now open to anyone who uses a DuckDuckGo mobile app, browser extension, or Mac browser. You can even lock the app with Touch ID or Face ID! You can install it in a single click on the Chrome Web Store. Launching its revamped iOS app now allows you to bring this level of privacy to your iPhone or iPad. DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials is an intuitive extension for handling your data privacy online, similar to Privacy Badger. “Today’s announcement is an exciting new stage of that long-standing mission, and a big step towards simplifying online privacy as people all over the world are greeted with nearly daily reminders in the news and elsewhere that their personal information isn’t safe online.”ĭuckDuckGo has been pioneering the privacy-focused search engine game since the beginning by offering a search engine without ads, trackers, or history tracking, unlike Google or Bing.

The revamped DuckDuckGo will also give you a privacy grade between A-F to see how privacy-centric the website you’re visiting is: The app is a mobile browser but also provides an extension that offers better tracker blocking, smarter encryption, and private search. The search engine DuckDuckGo has today revamped its iOS app to further protect your privacy online.

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