Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

  • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Yeah. People can avoid all this nonsense by installing one simple app… Duck duck go browser.

    You don’t have to use the browser. It just sits in the background quietly blocking tracking requests from other apps.

    It’s absolutely horrifying on first use to see how egregious tracking is.

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      4 days ago

      That’s not how it works. Apps cannot access the traffic of other apps, let alone decrypt it. There is no way DDG Browser does what you claim it does. They do not even claim that themselves.

      EDIT: Unless, of course, it works as a VPN, which apparently it does.