There was a person in all these days that trough some shade on Boost for tracking, but they were referring to the free version, which makes the presence of ads and tracking very clear. In the post somebody recommended the app tracking protection that comes with DuckDuckGos Browser. I downloaded it and to my surprise have had a lot of tracking attempts blocked from Boost, despite me having the payed version.

I thought I’d ask about this here first, because there might be a reasonable explanation for this. From my understanding it was made clear previously, that the payed version of boost doesn’t tack data…?

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    19 days ago

    After a little experimenting I believe that what you’re seeing are tracking attempts from websites using the in-app browser.

    I didn’t see a single tracking attempt when using Boost except when using the in-app browser.

    If you click a link to http://amazon.com/ and it loads inside Boost then DuckDuckGo records the trackers that the Web page loads as coming from Boost.

    I recommend instead using an external browser:

    Settings > General > Default Browser > select “Open Externally”

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    19 days ago

    If you share examples of the blocked tracking attempts we might be able to make sense of it. Without seeing it this just sounds like another unevidenced smear.