<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">On Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 at 1:07 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:</span></div><div class="protonmail_quote"><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000" class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> As we all begin to understand how high tech companies are tracking everything we do online, privacy is more and more important to us. Privacy browser company DuckDuckGo has a new tool for Android phones that doesn’t simply block tracking in your browser, but for </span><u style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">all</u><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> apps using a clever technique: an “internal” VPN. Then the app gives you a periodic report of what it blocked so you can see what’s been leaking all along. I’m trying it on my phone. </span><a style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" target="_blank" href="https://owowi.com/ddgo" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">DuckDuckGo now lets all Android users block trackers in their apps</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> at Bleeping Computer. bill w</span><br></div></div>
</blockquote></div><div class="protonmail_quote" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div class="protonmail_quote" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It's a nice idea, but if you use it, you lose the ability to use a real VPN.</div><div class="protonmail_quote" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div class="protonmail_quote" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">-Dave</div><div class="protonmail_quote">
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