Most non-personal emails you receive contain trackers that leak all sorts of private information back to the sender. DuckDuckGo is here to put a stop to that.
DuckDuckGo Email Security – What is it and how do you use it?
DuckDuckGo’s new Email Protection sanitizes emails sent to you and removes trackers before you receive them. It also lets you create disposable private Duck addresses, which you can deactivate if they’re leaked or flooded with spam. And the DuckDuckGo browser extension can autofill your Duck address or use a randomly generated private Duck address that also gets pushed to your inbox. All of this to minimize who’s tracking you online.
“Seventy percent of emails contain trackers that can detect when you opened a message, where you were when you opened it, and what device you were using,” DuckDuckGo's Allison Goodman told Lifewire via email.
When a marketer sends you an email, it usually contains a tracking pixel. This is an invisible image that loads when you view the email, just like an image loads in a web browser.
