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

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: 2) by hemocyanin on Saturday March 07 2020, @02:26AM (4 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Saturday March 07 2020, @02:26AM (#967765) Journal

    Thank you DDG.

    And thank you SN, the article links to a firefox extension that installs DDG Privacy Essentials.

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday March 07 2020, @06:57AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday March 07 2020, @06:57AM (#967826) Journal

    Hemo always brings us the best stuff!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @01:25PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @01:25PM (#967878)

    won't most this data get incorporated into extensions like ublock origin?

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by martyb on Sunday March 08 2020, @04:23AM (1 child)

      by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 08 2020, @04:23AM (#968089) Journal

      won't most this data get incorporated into extensions like ublock origin?

      I fail to see a problem with that. It seems to me that making it even easier for users to block those domains is a *good* thing to do!

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      • (Score: 2) by martyb on Monday March 30 2020, @06:48PM

        by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 30 2020, @06:48PM (#977304) Journal
        Please ignore this test comment. deleted text
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