Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

  • Bleeping Lobster
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    -34 hours 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.

    • Jiří Král
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      46 minutes ago

      There’s also the PersonalDNSFilter which does the equivalent while being a tiny open-source app that serves only for that purpose and also somehow still not getting banned from the Google Play store or AdAway which also has this feature or TrackerControl or…

    • @[email protected]
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      24 hours 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 hours ago

        It does in fact do what they claim it does, by functioning as a VPN.

        You should probably try the app first before talking out of your ass.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 hours ago

          They’re making shit up. I can assure you that the DDG app does in fact block trackers in other apps, by functioning as a VPN. Give it a try, it really does work.