Privacy-focused browser DuckDuckGo has made another step in offering a more private web experience today as it released its Tracker Radar. DuckDuckGo also made the resource open source and shared how individuals, developers, and researches can make use of the tool.
DuckDuckGo shared the news in a blog post (via CNET):
Tracker Radar is a data set that details “5,326 internet domains used by 1,727 companies and organizations that track you online.”
Here’s why DuckDuckGo decided to build its own tracker data set:
DuckDuckGo notes that there are several ways the resource can be used:
A Tracker Radar domain data file features two parts:
- Individuals can benefit from it by using our apps or extensions, which has a block list based on it.
- Developers can use it to make their own custom tracker block lists.
- Researchers can use it to research the tracking universe.
DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Browser for iOS is a free download from the App Store. For devs and researchers, you can find the Tracker Rader data set on Github.
- A file for each third-party domain (usually associated with tracking, but not always) containing detailed information about it
- A file for each parent entity, associating it with domains
For more details on Tracker Radar, check out the full announcement post.
