• Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • DMCA
Saturday, January 28, 2023
TheGreatNews.com
  • Home
  • MINDSET
  • WELL BEING
  • POSITIVE NEWS
  • WISDOM
  • PURPOSE
  • NEW TECHNOLOGIES
  • More Topics
    • ENTREPRENEUR
    • GREEN ENERGIES
    • SUCCESS
    • GOOD LIFE
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • MINDSET
  • WELL BEING
  • POSITIVE NEWS
  • WISDOM
  • PURPOSE
  • NEW TECHNOLOGIES
  • More Topics
    • ENTREPRENEUR
    • GREEN ENERGIES
    • SUCCESS
    • GOOD LIFE
No Result
View All Result
TheGreatNews.com
No Result
View All Result

DuckDuckGo’s privacy-protecting @duck.com email addresses are available to everyone

in NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Reading Time: 5 mins read
A A
DuckDuckGo’s privacy-protecting @duck.com email addresses are available to everyone
Share Share Share Share Share

After rolling out its Email Protection service in private beta last year, DuckDuckGo has announced that it’s finally available to all users. Email Protection is a forwarding service that assigns you a free “@duck.com” email address and intercepts email trackers before they hit your personal inbox.

If you need a refresher on exactly what DuckDuckGo’s Email Protection service does, it lets you use either a personal or private “duck” address to shield your real email address from companies. Before the email hits your inbox, DuckDuckGo strips it of the trackers that snoop on your location when opening an email, when you opened it, and the device you used. It also breaks down how many trackers it removed, as well as which companies they were attached to.

Personal addresses assign a name of your choice to your duck address, like emma@duck.com. Meanwhile, private addresses take things a bit further — each time you start filling out an email field, DuckDuckGo generates a random address, which might look something like avtzqdr@duck.com. Using a new private address each time you fill out an online form should make it even more difficult for companies to track you. You can also deactivate each private address individually in case one’s receiving a lot of spam.

DuckDuckGo will tell you how many trackers it blocked and which companies they came from.
Image: DuckDuckGo

Related articles

Garbage is sometimes a HIPAA violation

JBL announces the Tour One M2 headphones and Tour Pro 2 earbuds

Now that DuckDuckGo has opened the beta to everyone, it’s adding a few new features as well. This includes link tracking protection, which removes any trackers embedded in the links added to emails (including those added to images). It’s also rolling out a smarter encryption feature that converts any links using an unencrypted “http://” connection to a secure “https://” link. A URL using HTTPS prevents hackers — or your internet service provider (ISP) — from seeing how you interact with a website.

Additionally, DuckDuckGo now lets you reply from your duck address, whether you’re using a private or personal one. This can help conceal your email address when replying to a company or person who you might not want to know your personal address or identity. But because the email is actually getting sent from your personal email client, like Gmail, DuckDuckGo says it “can’t guarantee the email will not include your forwarding address or any other personal identifier.”

DuckDuckGo has also rolled out a new self-service dashboard that lets you change your forwarding address, as well as make any other changes to your duck accounts. You can try out the beta for yourself by using the DuckDuckGo extension for Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, or you can access it through the DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser for iOS, Android, and Mac (which is still in beta).

“The biggest threats to email privacy are trackers in emails and the profiling that happens via your email address,” Omid Majdi, the product lead at DuckDuckGo, said in a statement to The Verge. “DuckDuckGo Email Protection addresses both of these issues and does so in a simple way — same inbox, more privacy — and we’re thrilled to be making the beta open to all.”

Credit: Source link

ShareTweetSendPinShare
Previous Post

Why Prince William and Kate Middleton Are Moving Out of London

Next Post

You Should Air Fry Your Peaches

Related Posts

Garbage is sometimes a HIPAA violation

Garbage is sometimes a HIPAA violation

August 30, 2022

After the Supreme Court decided to end federal protection for abortion in June, many abortion advocates and lawmakers started agitating for the Biden administration to make...

JBL announces the Tour One M2 headphones and Tour Pro 2 earbuds

JBL announces the Tour One M2 headphones and Tour Pro 2 earbuds

August 30, 2022

JBL has just announced the Tour Pro 2 wireless earbuds, featuring adaptive noise cancellation and customizable ANC alongside a charging case with a 1.45-inch LED touchscreen...

Elon Musk says whistleblower’s testimony gives him more reasons to dump Twitter deal

August 30, 2022

Elon Musk says the disclosures of Twitter’s former security chief have given him new justifications to walk away from his $44 billion deal to buy the...

Logitech’s cloud gaming handheld leaks with Android apps and Switch-like UI

Logitech’s cloud gaming handheld leaks with Android apps and Switch-like UI

August 30, 2022

Logitech’s new cloud gaming handheld has leaked weeks after the company teased it was working on the new device. Logitech G and Tencent Games confirmed their...

Meta links Instagram’s NFT posts to Facebook as the market for ‘digital collectibles’ tanks

Meta links Instagram’s NFT posts to Facebook as the market for ‘digital collectibles’ tanks

August 30, 2022

Meta has been testing support for NFT “digital collectible” posts on Instagram since May, and if you’re among the expanding group of people with access, then...

Next Post
You Should Air Fry Your Peaches

You Should Air Fry Your Peaches

Why Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids Are Such a Big Deal

Why Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids Are Such a Big Deal

This Free App Alerts You Whenever Google Collects Your Browsing Data

This Free App Alerts You Whenever Google Collects Your Browsing Data

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Weekly Updates

insurance

“Life Insurance and its Impact on Overall Well-being”

January 24, 2023
TheGreatNews.com

This is an online news portal that aims to provide the latest updates about mindset, well being, positive news, wisdom, purpose, new technologies, entrepreneur, green energy, success, good life and stuff like that around the world. Feel free to get in touch with us!

© 2021 - TheGreatNews.com - All rights reserved!

  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • DMCA
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • MINDSET
  • WELL BEING
  • POSITIVE NEWS
  • WISDOM
  • PURPOSE
  • NEW TECHNOLOGIES
  • More Topics
    • ENTREPRENEUR
    • GREEN ENERGIES
    • SUCCESS
    • GOOD LIFE

© 2021 - TheGreatNews.com - All rights reserved!