DuckDuckGo will begin blocking Microsoft’s trackers. After users got angry.

In May, users of that browser DuckDuckGo were angered that the company appeared to allow trackers from Microsoft, while blocking Google and Facebook trackers. The company then promised changes and now DuckDuckGo says it is expanding its protection against Microsoft’s trackers.

Starting next week, DuckDuckGo will expand the third-party tracking scripts it blocks from loading on websites to include scripts from Microsoft. This is what DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says:
“This web tracking protection is not offered by most other popular browsers by default and sits on top of many other DuckDuckGo web tracking protections. This all means our browsing apps and extensions currently offer more protection against Microsoft trackers by default than Chrome, Firefox, Safari , and more.
Also, to help clear up some other misconceptions floating around, Microsoft scripts were never embedded in our search engine or apps, which do not track you. Websites insert these scripts for their own purposes, and so they never send any information to DuckDuckGo. Additionally, we were already restricting Microsoft tracking through our other web tracking protections, like blocking Microsoft’s third-party cookies in our browsers.”

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