How does DuckDuckGo email protection work? All you need to do is choose a Duck email address and start giving it out. “We believe protecting your personal information from leaking to third parties should be simple and seamless, like the rest of DuckDuckGo’s privacy protection bundle,” the company further said. Our free email forwarding service removes email trackers and protects the privacy of your personal email address without asking you to change email services or apps,” noted the company in a blog. “We’re excited to announce the beta release of DuckDuckGo’s Email Protection.
Further, the tracking data can be used to target users with ads and ultimately influence the content which one sees online.
DuckDuckGo claims that 70% of emails have trackers that can detect when a mail has been opened and even detect the location as well as what device was used to check.
Hopefully, this is something the company tackles in the future, and while we likely don’t need another email inbox to manage, one that puts privacy at the very forefront of its mission is one well worth considering using full time.Privacy focused search engine DuckDuckGo is launching Email Protection into beta, a new feature in its apps that will protect users’ email privacy without switching email services. Perhaps the only hiccup is that while emails are sent through the server and delivered to your inbox, you cannot create an email using your email. Realistically, given the drive for more privacy online, DuckDuckGo’s Email Protection service sounds really great. More importantly, if the email address is ever compromised online, you can easily delete it and start again. If you get to a point where you want to delete your account, your email address is removed 30 days after your account is deleted – all but ensuring there is no record of you whatsoever. The only piece of info that is saved is where the email is forwarded to, and that’s okay because you are deliberately giving the service that address.
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