DuckDuckGo Launches Email Protection to Remove Ad Trackers
DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser, a web browser released by the Internet search engine
Introducing Email Protection: The easy way to block email trackers and hide your address
https://www.spreadprivacy.com/introducing-email-protection-beta/
Today we're announcing the beta release of DuckDuckGo Email Protection! Get a free Duck Address, and we'll forward emails to your current inbox after zapping hidden trackers and protecting your current email address.
— DuckDuckGo (@DuckDuckGo) July 20, 2021
That's privacy, simplified. Https://t.co/Bcgz5yB7nZ
Emails run the risk of compromising privacy more than most people think, as some papers say that 70% of emails sent and received on the Internet are loaded with trackers.
The tracker included in the email collects various information such as information about the device used by the user and location information, and creates a profile to hit the targeted advertisement. It's exactly the effect of the email tracker that after you open an email, you'll see ads that are related to that email. This is also a problem because the information collected by the email tracker is sent directly to a third party without the user's consent.
To address these issues, DuckDuckGo has released a beta version of its email protection feature. It's like a free email forwarding service that removes the trackers contained in your emails and protects the privacy of your personal email addresses without changing your email services or apps.
As part of the email protection feature, users will be able to obtain a personal '@ duck.com' email address that they can use for free. Emails sent to this email address will be forwarded to your inbox with the email tracker removed. The DuckDuckGo app and extensions make it easy to access your personal '@ duck.com' address even when browsing the web.
You can also easily generate so-called 'discarded email addresses' at any time to protect your privacy. For websites that may be spammed or share email addresses, generating this abandoned email address allows users to voluntarily protect their privacy. You can easily deactivate abandoned email addresses, so you don't have the stress of receiving too much spam.
DuckDuckGo forwards emails to remove the email tracker, but DuckDuckGo does not store the contents of the emails. DuckDuckGo does not store information such as who sent it to whom. In addition, how DuckDuckGo handles information with the mail protection function is summarized on the following page.
DuckDuckGo Email | Privacy Guarantees
In addition, since you need to join the private waiting list to access the beta version of DuckDuckGo's email protection function, in the iOS or Android version of the DuckDuckGo app, in the order of gear icon → 'Email Protection' → 'Join the Private Waitlist' You need to tap.
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