Rick Воля 🔱Aug 3, 2023

I've been testing DuckDuckGo's App Tracking Protection (beta) for the past 24 hours.
Here's a small comparison between #Twitter #Mastodon and #Bluesky (with about equal usage/screen time).
Bluesky is by far the worst with almost 2200 tracking attempts.

Edit: I'd just like to make clear that this beta can be used by anyone with the regular DuckDuckGo browser app (on Android, don't know about iOS).

Show threadRick Воля 🔱Aug 3, 2023
Twitter gets to second place with 355 tracking attempts, which I expected to be higher.
And Mastodon - using the Tusky app for Android - is the absolute winner with 0 tracking attempts, which I can't show because there was nothing to track.
Show threadLarry Rubinow
@Rii_cck Rick, do you have lists of the the URLs the trackers were pinging? It would be interesting to know. I understand there are some website analytics tools that get incorporated into source, and could resemble ad trackers.
Aug 5, 2023 at 1:15amWeb