{"id":951858,"date":"2021-11-20T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T11:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=951858"},"modified":"2021-11-20T06:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T11:22:18","slug":"duckduckgo-wants-to-stop-apps-tracking-you-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=951858","title":{"rendered":"DuckDuckGo wants to stop apps tracking you on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Gabriel Weinberg, creator of DuckDuckGo. (credit: Washington Post | Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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At the end of April, Apple\u2019s introduction of App Tracking Transparency tools\u00a0<\/a>shook the advertising industry to its core. iPhone and iPad owners could now stop apps from tracking their behavior and using their data for personalized advertising. Since the new privacy controls launched, almost $10 billion has been wiped from the revenues<\/a> of Snap, Meta Platform\u2019s Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.<\/p>\n

Now, a similar tool is coming to Google\u2019s Android operating system\u2014although not from Google itself. Privacy-focused tech company DuckDuckGo<\/a>, which started life as a private search engine<\/a>, is adding the ability to block hidden trackers to its Android app. The feature, dubbed \u201cApp Tracking Protection for Android,\u201d is rolling out<\/a> in beta from today and aims to mimic Apple\u2019s iOS controls. \u201cThe idea is we block this data collection from happening from the apps the trackers don\u2019t own,\u201d says Peter Dolanjski, a director of product at DuckDuckGo. \u201cYou should see far fewer creepy ads following you around online.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nSource: Ars Technica – DuckDuckGo wants to stop apps tracking you on Android<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enlarge \/ Gabriel Weinberg, creator of DuckDuckGo. (credit: Washington Post | Getty Images) At the end of April, Apple\u2019s introduction of App Tracking Transparency tools\u00a0shook the advertising industry to its core. iPhone and iPad owners could now stop apps from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":951859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-951858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/951859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}