DuckDuckGo’s privacy-obsessed browser blocks much more scams now
DuckDuckGo has now prolonged the fraud safety in its privacy-centric browser to defend customers from much more scams — with out subjecting your searching to further monitoring. Yay!
Along with blocking phishing websites, malware, and identified on-line scams, the DuckDuck Go browser’s safety will now additionally work towards faux on-line shops, faux crypto exchanges, and “scareware” websites that declare your PC is contaminated or blocked by the FBI, for instance.
The software works by merely alerting the consumer in the event that they click on on an online web page that may very well be doubtlessly dangerous. The web site handle is checked towards a localized listing of identified threats from Netcraft that’s up to date each 20 minutes.
Personal individuals will respect how DDG handles the technical facet of this. In contrast to browsers that use Google Protected Looking — equivalent to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox — DuckDuckGo does all of the checking with out sharing knowledge with a 3rd get together. The brand new characteristic is enabled by default with out requiring an account.
Additional studying: I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo’s non-public search: 5 large takeaways
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
