App Tracking Protection blocks those third-party trackers directly, making the tool more powerful than what’s available on iOS.”Īpp Tracking Protection Demo GIF by DuckDuckGo

In a statement to The Verge, vice president of communications at DuckDuckGo, Kamyl Bazbaz, said that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency tool “only restricts direct access to a user’s IDFA, the rest is essentially an honor system, where Apple is asking developers to respect user choice not to track but isn’t actually blocking any third party trackers itself.

It recognizes when an app is about to send the data to a third-party tracker, and then blocks it.ĭuckDuckGo says that its version of App Tracking Transparency is better than Apple's version. The company says that even though the tool is a part of the browser, it works across all the apps. The tool comes in-built as a part of the DuckDuckGo's privacy browser app. Over 96% of the popular free Android apps contained hidden third-party trackers, says DuckDuckGo The tool, called App Tracking Protection, claims to offer 'more protection' from third-party trackers on Android. Privacy-focused search engine and browser-maker app developer DuckDuckGo has now released a tool that claims to bring Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature to all Android smartphones.

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