From CNET: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo opened its Email Protection service beta to everyone Thursday.
The service gives you a free Duck address (name@duck.com) and will detect and strip trackers within emails sent to it. Then the email is forwarded to your personal email address, and DuckDuckGo will let you know how many trackers it got rid of.
The service can be used with your existing email, and it allows you to create a new private Duck address without switching email providers.
According to DuckDuckGo, over 85% of beta testers' emails contained hidden trackers, and a 2018 study found trackers in more than 70% of mailing lists. Some email trackers act like read receipts and just let a sender know when an email is opened. Others can track where an email was opened or whether you clicked or downloaded something from the email.
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