DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused tech company, today launched something called Tracker Radar—an open-source, automatically generated and continually updated list that currently contains more than 5,000 domains that more than 1,700 companies use to track people online.
The idea behind Tracker Radar, first reported by CNET, is to share the data DuckDuckGo has collected to create a better set of tracker blockers. DuckDuckGo says that the majority of existing tracker data falls into two types: block lists and in-browser tracker identification. The issue is the former relies on crowd-sourcing and manual maintenance. The latter is difficult to scale and also can be potentially abused due to the fact it's generating a list based on your actual browsing habits. Tracker Radar supposedly gets around some of these issues by looking at the most common cross-site trackers and including a host of information about their behavior, things like prevalence, fingerprinting, cookies, and privacy policies, among other considerations.
See DuckDuckGo's Tracker Radar GitHub page for the list and other tools.
Obligatory alt-aristarchus comment: If it walks like a duckduckgo, and it quacks like a duckduckgo, it's got privacy like a duckduckgo! Thanks, Google!
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @12:04AM (8 children)
Love grilled duck - it's like grilled chicken with bacon on top.
I hear Peking Duck is pretty good, too, though seems extravant waste just to eat the skin, but whatever.
(Score: 2, Funny) by BsAtHome on Saturday March 07 2020, @12:24AM
Well, when it has been grilled, parted and eaten, then it cannot track you anymore. It will simply be digested and shit will exit in due time. What is not to like about that?
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by fustakrakich on Saturday March 07 2020, @12:26AM (5 children)
I give you very best duck [youtube.com]
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Saturday March 07 2020, @01:15AM (2 children)
Okay, you clickbaited me, but the last second made it worth it.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Saturday March 07 2020, @02:43AM
Yeah, sorry 'bout that.
I forgot to queue it up properly [youtu.be]
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @05:40PM
Offtopic
Democrats are stalking. No sense of humor. They are still so bitter
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Saturday March 07 2020, @01:18PM (1 child)
The second best thing in the universe:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kHRzuXkVIJE [youtube.com]
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @05:44PM
Well, I'm glad some people can have a bit of fun with the topic without getting slammed for it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @03:15PM
Only Communists would help people protect their privacy!
It started back with that game in the 80's. Ever since then the Duck has become a national symbol of the bulshivics. We cannot let the Ducks create a mineshaft gap!