Duckduckgo Launches New Products Focused On Improving User Privacy

DuckDuckGo, the popular search engine focused on keeping the privacy of those who use it to the maximum, has recently released new versions of its browser extension and its mobile application that promises users today launched renewed versions of its browser and application extension. Standalone mobile, which promises users with built-in blocking of trackers and smarter encryption.

DuckDuckGo, now even more private

The main feature now presented by both the DuckDuckGo browser extension and the application for mobile devices is a card that offers information regarding the privacy rating (AF) every time a user visits a website. This privacy rating is intended to allow users to know at a single quick glance the level of protection we have when visiting a web page, while providing additional options so that we can know more details about all attempts to Track our activity that have been blocked.

The different scores "granted" to the privacy offered by a certain website are based on aspects such as the existence of hidden networks to monitor user activity, the availability of encryption and the privacy practices that exist on it, such and as the company itself has stated.

The vast majority of websites on the Internet contain hidden tracking networks, with Google crawlers lurking behind 76% of pages, Facebook crawlers on 24% of pages, and countless others sucking up your personal information to follow it with ads. on the Web, or worse. Our Privacy Protection will block all hidden trackers we can find, exposing the major ad networks that track you over time, so you can track who is trying to track you. ”

On the other hand, the new encryption protection feature automatically sends users to an encrypted version of a website whenever it is available, instead of leading us to an unencrypted version of the page.

New versions of the software include DuckDuckGo's private search engine by default, while the updated extension is now available for Safari, Firefox and Chrome, and the mobile app for iOS can be downloaded for free from the App Store. To know more, do not hesitate to visit the DuckDuckGo website.