And, after two years in the wilderness, I’m pretty sure I’m sold on a post-Google future. But something makes these searches, in internet terms, a bit unusual. Before that, I wanted to know the capital of Albania (Tirana), the Twitter handle of Liberal Democrat deputy leader Ed Davey (he’s and dates of bank holidays in the UK for 2019 (it’s a late Easter next year, folks). We are continually working to identify and protect against new trackers, so you can rest easy knowing you’re getting the most up-to-date protection,” the company writes.What was the last thing you searched for online? For me, it was ‘$120 in pounds’. “You can enjoy your apps as you normally would and App Tracking Protection will run in the background and continue to block the detected trackers throughout your apps, even while you sleep. In explaining how the feature works the company says it will take action to block requests when Android apps attempt to send data to the third-parties seeking it. Of those, 87% sent data to Google and 68% sent data to Facebook,” the company said in a blog post explaining the reason for the feature. “Over 96% of the popular free Android apps we tested (based on rankings) contained hidden third-party trackers. Users opting into the beta will regularly be informed of how many tracking requests have been wiped out. While it exists within the browser app, it can still manage to police tracking activity across other apps installed upon your phone. No such feature currently exists within Android.

The app tracking protection sounds similar to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency opt-out feature, which launched last year in iOS 14.5, but DuckDuckGo says its wants to offer greater protection than Apple’s tool. The feature, which is launching in private beta within the DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser, is described by the company as “the easiest way to block trackers lurking in your apps.” The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo browser app is launching a new feature on Android that will seek to prevent third-party companies tracking users within Android apps that aren’t their own.

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