{"id":452927,"date":"2022-05-25T20:23:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T17:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/duckduckgos-browser-cant-block-microsoft-tracking-scripts\/"},"modified":"2022-05-25T20:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T17:23:44","slug":"duckduckgos-browser-cant-block-microsoft-tracking-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/duckduckgos-browser-cant-block-microsoft-tracking-scripts\/","title":{"rendered":"#DuckDuckGo\u2019s Browser Can\u2019t Block Microsoft Tracking Scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d78daadd8d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d78daadd8d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/duckduckgos-browser-cant-block-microsoft-tracking-scripts\/#%E2%80%9CDuckDuckGos_Browser_Cant_Block_Microsoft_Tracking_Scripts%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;DuckDuckGo\u2019s Browser Can\u2019t Block Microsoft Tracking Scripts&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CDuckDuckGos_Browser_Cant_Block_Microsoft_Tracking_Scripts%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;DuckDuckGo\u2019s Browser Can\u2019t Block Microsoft Tracking Scripts&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage size-full wp-image-785298\" data-pagespeed-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/duckduckgo-logo-smartphone.jpg?width=398&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1 400w, https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/duckduckgo-logo-smartphone.jpg?width=1198&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 400w, 1200w\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/duckduckgo-logo-smartphone.jpg?width=1198&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"Smartphone screen showing the DuckDuckGo logo.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"type:primaryImage imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/west-bangal-india-august-21-2021-2059809698\">sdx15\/Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/\">DuckDuckGo<\/a> is best known as a private search engine, but the company also has a private web browser for mobile devices (with a desktop version on the way). However, the browser is currently in hot water, after a security researcher discovered an exception for Microsoft trackers.<\/p>\n<p>The main feature of DuckDuckGo Browser is that it blocks tracking <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>s and most online advertising, in an effort to keep as few servers from collecting data about your behavior as possible. Tracking protection is never 100% effective, since it relies on people to keep adding sites and domains to blocklists (like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/notracking\/hosts-blocklists\">NoTracking<\/a>). However, DuckDuckGo Browser has a defined exception for Microsoft-owned ad networks and tracking scripts, allowing them to load even when they are known to compromise privacy.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewgeek.com\/118915\/duckduckgo-isnt-as-private-as-you-thought\/\">As our sister site reported yesterday<\/a>, Zach Edwards first pointed out the exception in a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of tweets, after noticing DuckDuckGo on iPhone and Android wasn\u2019t blocking LinkedIn and Bing advertisements on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u2019s Workplace site.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You can capture data within the DuckDuckGo so-called private browser on a website like Facebook&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u8W44qvsqF\">https:\/\/t.co\/u8W44qvsqF<\/a> and you&#8217;ll see that DDG does NOT stop data flows to Microsoft&#8217;s Linkedin domains or their Bing advertising domains. <\/p>\n<p>iOS + Android proof:<br \/>\ud83d\udc40\ud83e\udee5\ud83d\ude2e\u200d\ud83d\udca8\ud83e\udd21\u26c8\ufe0f\u2696\ufe0f\ud83d\udcb8\ud83d\udcb8\ud83d\udcb8 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u3Q30KIs7e\">pic.twitter.com\/u3Q30KIs7e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u2128\ud835\udd1e\ud835\udd20\ud835\udd25 \ud835\udd08\ud835\udd21\ud835\udd34\ud835\udd1e\ud835\udd2f\ud835\udd21\ud835\udd30 (@thezedwards) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thezedwards\/status\/1528808795983319041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DuckDuckGo\u2019s CEO and founder,\u00a0Gabriel Weinberg, replied with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yegg\/status\/1529054029560614913\">his own series of tweets<\/a>. \u201cMost all of our other protections also apply to MSFT-owned properties as well, he said, \u201cThis is just about non-DuckDuckGo and non-Microsoft sites, where our search syndication agreement prevents us from stopping Microsoft-owned scripts from loading, though we can still apply protections post-load (like 3rd party cookie blocking). We are also working to change that.\u00a0I understand this is confusing because a search syndication contract is preventing us from doing a non-search thing. That\u2019s because our product bundles many privacy protections, and this is a distribution requirement imposed on us as part of search (again, working on it though).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/help.duckduckgo.com\/duckduckgo-help-pages\/results\/sources\/\">DuckDuckGo says it uses over 400 sources<\/a> for search engine results, including <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/help.duckduckgo.com\/duckduckgo-help-pages\/results\/duckduckbot\/\">the company\u2019s own web crawler<\/a>, but typical link results are sourced \u201cmost commonly from Bing.\u201d According to\u00a0Weinberg, DuckDuckGo\u2019s ability to use Bing search results depends on a carved-out exception for Microsoft\u2019s ads in the mobile browser.<\/p>\n<p>Private search and browsing is DuckDuckGo\u2019s main claim to fame, so understandably, the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> hasn\u2019t gone over well with some long-time fans. The company also hasn\u2019t informed its users about the limitation at all \u2014 although\u00a0its CEO has been <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=from%3Ayegg%20filter%3Areplies&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live\">doing damage control on Twitter<\/a> and other platforms, the official DuckDuckGo social media accounts and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spreadprivacy.com\/\">blog<\/a> haven\u2019t said anything about the discovery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script>\n setTimeout(function(){\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s) } (window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n   fbq('init', '335401813750447');\n   fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  },3000);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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