tracker blocking

A few months on from a tracking controversy hitting privacy-centric search veteran, DuckDuckGo, the company has announced it’s been able to amend terms with Microsoft, its search syndication partner, that…

DuckDuckGo removes carve-out for Microsoft tracking scripts after securing policy change

DuckDuckGo, the self-styled “internet privacy company” — which, for years, has built a brand around a claim of non-tracking web search and, more recently, launched its own ‘private’ browser with…

DDG has a tracker blocking carve-out linked to Microsoft contract

From today Firefox users who update to the latest version of the browser will find a pro-privacy setting flipped for them on desktop and Android smartphones, assuming they didn’t already have…

Mozilla flips the default switch on Firefox tracker cookie blocking

No one likes being stalked around the internet by ads for something they once looked at or have previously bought. And Apple has noticed this — so it’s adding an…

Apple adds ad tracker blocker to desktop Safari