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Open source privacy-enhancing web browser extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials is presented as a cross-browser extension that bundles tracker blocking, HTTPS enforcement, and private search integration, and DuckDuckGo’s own testing compares extensio...
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials offers a straightforward, all‑in‑one privacy add‑on focused on tracker blocking, HTTPS enforcement and search privacy aimed at non‑technical users, while uBlock Origin is...
DuckDuckGo maintains curated, app- and extension-focused tracker blocklists and uses them to stop many third-party requests before they load, mitigate CNAME cloaking, and apply additional protections ...
A practical defense against combines two kinds of tools: reputational/anti-phishing engines that flag known-bad domains in real time (e.g., , , ) and content/privacy blockers that remove tracking and ...
have reduced classical third‑party cookie tracking, but trackers routinely sidestep those protections using first‑party channels, server‑side techniques, and device ; mitigating them requires layered ...
A website reliably detects a download when its server receives HTTP requests for a resource or when client-side analytics run while rendering content, so there is no perfect client-side way to stop a ...
Browser privacy extensions can meaningfully add protections that some browsers don’t include by default—blocking trackers, forcing HTTPS, and limiting third‑party scripts—yet they also introduce new r...