Pop-ups From Google are Now Blocked by DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo, a search engine, and browser that has been synonymous with privacy and data protection for years, launched a new feature that captures one of the most common pop-up advertisements on the web, Sign in with Google. 

Some sites produce this Google pop-up, such as Reddit (opens in new tab), Zillow (opens in new tab), and Booking.com (opens in new tab), that are frequently led to this Google pop-up when they load a website for the first time.  

There is a new feature that captures one of the most common pop-up advertisements on the web, Sign in with Google by DuckDuckGo, a search engine, and browser that has been synonymous with privacy and data protection for years. 

Aside from providing a privacy-focused search engine, DuckDuckGo also offers email services, mobile apps, and extensions designed to protect data in the browser. There is also an attempt to produce a standalone web browser, which is currently in beta and is only available for Mac computers. 

To present the user with a “cleaner and more privacy-sensitive experience,” the company announced that its updated mobile apps and Firefox, Chrome, Brave, and Edge extensions will take out all the disruptive and misleading pop-ups from its mobile apps and browser exten

[…]
Content was cut in order to protect the source.Please visit the source for the rest of the article.