DuckDuckGo - ad blocker and privacy protection in the browser and on your smartphone
Android Ios / / December 19, 2019
Expansion and DuckDuckGo application block ad networks work on a page and show, from which suffers privacy on that site.
DuckDuckGo The company is known primarily as a developer of the same name search engine. The main feature of the engine - complete privacy: it does not use the data for user selection of search results. The company recently released a mobile application and browser extension, which more strongly protect your privacy.
Application functionality and expansion is similar: Both block the work of the ad networks on sites. It does not allow resources to show you annoying ads and track your activities on the Internet.
DuckDuckGo each site assigns a rating based on the information on whether the resource is protected compound, how many ad networks working on the site and whether it uses unknown action tracking method users. But most importantly, the product automatically eliminates most of the problems and thus almost always increases the site's ranking.
For example, in the case of "Wikipedia" DuckDuckGo managed to block advertising network "Yandex" and Google and increase the rating to C to B. And at the entrance to Facebook showed not only low rating D without the possibility of increasing, but also the fact that the social network is watching you, even on other sites and the use of your data for different purposes.
Like traditional blockers like AdBlock, DuckDuckGo allows you to make an exception sites. And through it you can get a summary of all the ad networks on which you encountered. Moreover, the company's product search engine is integrated and mobile application in general is a browser like firefox Focus.
The new app is available for free on iOS and Android. Expansion can be installed in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. In the latter case, you must go to website search engine and click on the blue button Add DuckDuckGo to Safari in the upper right corner.
Price: Free
Price: Free