Keeping clients' computers safe and profitable for over 30 years | |||
Home Forms About Current Newsletter subscribe Search All Articles
Browse by Category
|
Duck.com email addressesPreview:
Free email addresses from DuckDuckGo will strip out any trackers and then forward the message to you. Just sign up for an address and point to your current email address. DuckDuckGo has added another interesting option. You can get duck.com addresses for free. These are useful for websites you sign into that might try to track you. When the site sends emails to that address, DuckDuckGo strips any trackers from it and forwards the email to you with a note regarding how many, if any, trackers it removed. They record nothing, and do not keep your emails. They just strip trackers and forward to any email address you like. If you are getting spammed from an address, you can deactivate it.
I found it interesting when I purchased a book from an unknown used book dealer, to see that originally, no trackers were used. But, later, as they sent me ads for more books, there was one tracker that went back to them. This is probably just to monitor who opens the emails and perhaps also who clicks on something. Mailchimp, my email service, does this for me. I track how many people open my newsletters and what links they click on to help determine what kinds of articles to write. (But honestly, I mostly just write what I want).
From DesktopIf you don't already have DuckDuckGo's privacy essentials browser extension, you'll need to add it to your browser. It is a good extension to have, and one I often recommend.
The extension blocks trackers, as opposed to advertisements, and then rates the site now that the trackers are removed.
From the extension icon:
From MobileThe program is still in beta, but you can sign up on the waitlist. To add yourself to the waitlist (or maybe just get added) just:
For more informationDuckDuckGo's announcement Date: January 2022
This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. |
||
|