Tracker Radar is the development of DuckDuckGo: a compilation of what the trackers that watch us on the net have collected

For all those who are looking for a secure browser that keeps our activity on the net anonymous, DuckDuckGo happens to be one of the most interesting options. As a Chrome, Firefox, or Edge add-on, DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused option and free

For some time now, DuckDuckGo has been carrying out a study, a compilation of all the trackers that are in charge of following our activityin the web. And now, the company has decided to share the results obtained and, incidentally, also offer the public the source code of the utility that has made it possible.

Tracker Radar

Despite what many people think, the anonymous modes of the most popular browsers do not protect our anonymity on the web: they do not go through generally beyond protecting privacy locally And DuckDuckGo goes one step further by avoiding trackers and warning when they monitor our activity. DuckDuckGo is compatible with Chrome through an extension that we can download from the Chrome Web Store

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And being faithful to its bases that are none other than maintaining privacy, has developed a function called Tracker Radar>, which is responsible for tracking what they collect while we browse, trackers on the net. Information regarding the most common cross-sites, the prevalence, behavior of cookies or the privacy policy."

According to CNET, the data provided contains details about 5,326 domains used by 1,727 companies to track our web browsing. The goal of sharing Tracker Radar and its code is to make it easier for developers to help block tracking of our browsing.

Tracker Radar integrates into the mobile versions of DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser but also into the desktop browser extensions that are available for Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

A sniffer is a software tool designed to monitor and analyze network traffic with the theoretical objective of improving performance. The problem is that by the way, they can record all the information that passes through them and in this sense they can know the pages we visit, search history, location...

Little by little companies want to be more transparent regarding the protection of our data and for example, Google is considering eliminating third-party cookies in Chrome by 2022.

More information | DuckDuckGo Via | CNET