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   Terri218
   Member

   Has anyone tried this yet? Do you recommend it?

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   gergn
   Member

   DDG is an American firm. In the first place, DuckDuckGo is known as a seach engine. Later they also made a browser and a mail de-tracker. See https:[/]/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo.

   The browser should block trackers.

   I use both these three products, but not exclusively. The search engine finds less results than Google. The mail de-tracker seems to work good. The browser is OK. Give it a try to see if you like it.

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   Terri218
   Member

   Thanks. I'm not familiar with a mail de-tracker. What does that do?

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   gergn
   Member

   See https[:]//duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/email-protection/what-is-duckduckgo-email-protection/

   and

   https[:]//spreadprivacy.com/protect-your-inbox-with-duckduckgo-email-protection/

   I use it when I have to leave a mail address, and I am not a registered customer, or just want to keep my identity private.

   Mails to me are forwarded to my regular mail address and I get warnings like

   "DuckDuckGo removed trackers from SendGrid, and two others. More"

   I use 33mail a lot. Those mails get a tracker to/from http://www.33mail.com and DuckDuckGo will remove that tracker.

   Giveawayoftheday.com sends clear download links, without a tracker:

   "DuckDuckGo did not detect any trackers. "

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   mikiem2
   Moderator

   For quite a while now I have been using DuckDuckGo for a handful of sites that only reliably let me log in using the DuckDuckGo browser. Afterward it'll show what to me is a very large number of trackers that were blocked. That probably should impress me, but I tend to close the browser after visiting 1, occasionally 2 or 3 sites, & since everything's deleted then, any trackers don't have much if any data to send home, certainly nothing that could be used for marketing.

   The DuckDuckGo browser is itself OK I guess, but missing an awful lot of settings and features found in the major browsers. I don't use DuckDuckGo's search because I've become too mentally entrenched in Google's search I guess I'll say language -- I can almost always find what I'm looking for using Google. *For me* OTOH Bing is TERRIBLE, and that's what DuckDuckGo uses, along with several other non-Google search engines. That said, I've read that Opera's AI search is really good, but haven't broken my Google habit to try it yet.

   Posted 9 months ago #

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