You may have already heard of DuckDuckGo at some point, since it is quite well known for being one of the current search engines that cares the most about user privacy. But, your concern does not end there. More than anything, because last year we saw how a new email service began to come to life, called Email Protection , which promised us to forward emails without possible tracking, as well as the hope of always keeping our email inbox clean.
And, after a long year of waiting in the private beta phase for some users, it has already been announced that this very interesting, as well as useful, service is available to everyone. However, not everyone knows how this new feature works. But, that does not imply that it is not of great help to protect our Gmail, Outlook or the email accounts that we use at all times.
The beta version is now available to everyone
We are still facing a functionality in beta phase. Although, it must be made clear that it has been a beta that has been running privately for a few lucky users since it was announced last year. At first, it was available to all those who were part of a waiting list. But, now, we find that DuckDuckGo has opened the beta for everyone . So anyone can try it without having to wait.
This has happened after, during the use of the beta in a closed way for a few users, it has met all expectations. And it is that, Email Protection found trackers in 85% of the emails of the first to test this functionality of DuckDuckGo. So, after a long year, we will be able to use this feature to prevent us from receiving emails that may contain trackers.
How does this tool work?
Now that the beta version is public for everyone, anyone can get a free personal address, @duck.com . And once we have this, it will be as easy as linking to another account that will be where we receive the final emails, either to our Gmail, Outlook or the one we use.
In short, the main thing is to be clear about what the account we create does: clean those emails so that there are no trackers and keep the inbox clean. In addition, from DuckDuckGo they have made it clear that it will work for PC , iOS and Android . They have even commented that unlimited private email addresses can be created, even if we want to have a disposable account for each web page.
In the event that we want it on a PC, we will have to download the DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials extension (available for Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Brave). And if we want it on Android or iOS, we will have to download the app from Google Play or the App Store. Once we have the browser or the extension, we will have to go to the Email Protection website . Inside, we will have to create a unique user and put the mail that we want to protect.
