Looking at a specific scenario involving the Southwest Airlines, Zillow, SeatGeek, Weather Network apps, the firm says that over 45 tracking firms will collect personal data like your location, email address, phone number, time zone, and a fingerprint of your device capabilities, all of which are used to specifically identify you. So, we’re offering Android users something even more powerful: enable our App Tracking Protection and we’ll automatically block all the hidden trackers we can identify as blockable across your apps.”Īccording to DuckDuckGo, the average Android user has 35 apps on their smartphone and they experience 1000 to 2000 tracking attempts every single day via over 70 different tracking companies. Most smartphone users worldwide actually use Android. “You may have heard of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency, a feature for iPhones and iPads that asks users whether they want to allow third-party app tracking or not in each of their apps. “App Tracking Protection for Android is a free feature in the DuckDuckGo Android app that helps block 3rd-party trackers in the apps on your phone (like Google snooping in your weather app) – meaning more comprehensive privacy and less creepy targeting,” the company explains. DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection is now available to all Android users in open beta after a full year in a private beta.
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