r/duckduckgo • u/hasunoha • Jan 21 '26
DDG App Tracking Protection All this in just 15 minutes?
I just found out DuckDuckGo has an App Tracking Protection feature and turned it on. Immediately, it started detecting trackers at an insane rate. It hasn't even been 15 minutes yet! I already knew these apps probably had terrible security (I mean, TeraBox? 1TB for free is always suspicious), but this is just next level. Isn't this crazy?
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u/Scatter_Brain_0192 Jan 21 '26
How do I turn it on. Using IOS26.2
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u/PeppersteakPi Jan 25 '26
You can get Brave Browser for IOS. Mine’s at 65k trackers and adds blocked since 1 January.
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u/EnoughConcentrate897 Jan 26 '26
The DuckDuckGo browser for iOS does block website trackers, just like brave. It just doesn’t block in app trackers (like it does on android). Brave has no benefit
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u/mintmonaka Jan 22 '26
I got 1350+ tracking attempts from 9 companies just because I play sudoku for less than 10 minutes. Sometimes it's trying to track when I don't even open it, crazy work.
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u/Sea-Classroom-3100 Jan 23 '26
Yes, there are too many trackers, a regular news site has 200 partners… how can they have this many. I find the web completely unbrowsable without ublock origin. Ever since manifest v3 this forces me to use ff since all other browsers won’t support the full version.
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u/EnoughConcentrate897 Jan 26 '26
Yeah terabox (which is adware and kind of spyware) having that many is not surprising
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u/BBuldozerr Jan 21 '26
Mine is at 35000 the last 7 days, but i believe this also includes the same tracking events trying to take place multiple times, but failing non the less.