The alternative browser challenges Big Tech. DuckDuckGo is committed to privacy and security

By entering a website in the DuckDuckGO (DDG) browser, we receive a notification in the upper left corner, after clicking which we learn that at that moment Google, Facebook and, for example, three other pages that collect data about our activity, for example for marketing reasons, were trying to track us. .

“Browse as always, and we will do the rest” – is the slogan of the manufacturer, which declares that his browser is as functional as the solutions known to everyone, but with the difference that, as a rule, it blocks all cookies and tracking attempts, including location tracking.

An alternative browser is currently available on mobile devices, but a beta version for computers has already been launched and a fully functional version can be expected in some time. The popularity of the new browser is growing, and some time ago the creators of the new solution reported that they had achieved a result of 100 million searches per day.

DDG declares not only not selling data to the advertiser, but also a different principle of operation of algorithms that screen out the content called farm content, i.e. focused not on the subject matter, but only on achieving a high position in the browser.

For several years, the company ran a project called Tracker Radar, which collected data about user tracking applications. The results of this study were recently published, which managed to create a list of 1,727 companies responsible for violating user privacy. Whoever is the leader on this list is obviously no surprise, and the top eight players are as follows: Google, Facebook, Adobe, Amazon, Oracle, TowerData, AppNexus and Rubicon Project.

Source: antyweb.pl