In most cases, the applications we use on a day-to-day basis do not leave us with many options for managing our personal information. Yes, we can choose not to share our location or image and video settings with them, but in the long run, this reduces the app’s usefulness. This leaves us with a dilemma: Should we sacrifice our privacy on Android for the functionality of the app we need? The answer is no, and thanks to DuckDuckGo.
A well-known company has released a new feature for Android users. It’s called App Tracking Protection or App Tracking Protection.. Its usefulness is mainly based on the features that Apple launched in iOS some time ago, but this time for Android users.
Of course, the app tracking protection offered by DuckDuckGo is still in testing, although it has already reached open beta. So if you want to try it on your Android device and stop sacrificing your privacy for your apps to work properly, here we tell you what you should do.
DuckDuckGo cares about the privacy of all Android users.
Essentially, this app tracking protection feature will detect any app that tries to send your personal information to third party companies. In addition, the detection hardware is based on the extensive library DuckDuckGo has put together to date, which is quite extensive as you might imagine if you know its history.
What benefits does the user get? Also. As we have already mentioned, applications usually ask you for permissions, which, if you do not grant them, will, for obvious reasons, make their work a little difficult. For example, not having Google Maps location permissions will make it almost useless.
What DuckDuckGo brings up is the following. You can grant all apps any permissions they need to work. However, app tracking protection will run in the background and detect when they want to take advantage of your kindness to share your data with third party companies, whether advertising or otherwise. Automatically it traffic will be blocked protecting your privacy without burdening your experience.
How to use App Tracking Protection on your device
Getting started with this feature is pretty easy. You only need install mobile browser DuckDuckGo the first time, and then follow these steps:
- Sign in browser DuckDuckGo on your Android device.
- When it asks if you want to set it as your default browser, you can answer with any of the options. There are no obligations.
- Once inside, click on the three dots at the top of the screen.
- Sign in settings.
- Here, go to Application Tracking Protection. Click on Continue when a message appears on the screen. Then activate the feature.
- It will ask you to set up a local VPN. Accept too.
In a few minutes, your new DuckDuckGo configuration will be saved. From now on, the application will take care of blocking attempts by applications to share your data with third parties. If you click on an application in the list, you will get more information about it and what information it usually collects from its users.
Source: Hiper Textual
