What is App Tracking Protection and is it safe

DuckDuckGo's App Tracking Protection:
The Android browser feature blocks third-party trackers across apps and games on your device

DuckDuckGo's App Tracking Protection feature for Android aims to block third-party trackers across apps and games on your device. The feature will send you daily reports showing how many tracking attempts it has blocked across your apps for the first week after enabling the feature. After the first week, you will get those reports every other week. This feature doesn't send data back to DuckDuckGo or other remote servers, meaning all data stays on your Android device.

DuckDuckGo's feature is similar to Apple's App Tracking Transparency tool, which helps protect user data from being shared with advertisers or third parties.

Apple's feature relies on developers to stop tracking once a device disables App Tracking Transparency, but DuckDuckGo's feature works directly on your phone to monitor network traffic and block trackers.

Here's how to enable the App Tracking Protection beta on your Android device.

• Download DuckDuckGo for Android or update to the latest version.
• Open the DuckDuckGo app.
• Tap Settings.
• Tap App Tracking Protection beta in the More from DuckDuckGo section.
• Follow the onscreen prompts.