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DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online

posted by martyb on Friday March 06 2020, @11:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the time-to-update-your-hosts-file dept.

aristarchus writes:

Gizmodo reports:

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!

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Saturday March 07 2020, @01:15AM (2 children)

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