DuckDuckGo Just Made It Easier to Share Links Without Getting Tracked

It's reliable to enactment backstage connected the internet. It's hardly an moreover playing field: If you usage apps and websites arsenic they're designed, your each move is almost guaranteed to beryllium tracked truthful that companies tin compile a floor plan to target you pinch ads. That moreover extends to elemental tasks for illustration sharing links pinch friends: You mightiness deliberation you're simply communicating successful private, but arsenic soon arsenic you click "copy" connected that link, trackers connect themselves to the URL and travel on for the ride.

It doesn't person to beryllium this way. There are galore steps you tin return to forestall trackers from stalking you crossed the internet—some much aggravated than others. And while stripping search URLs from links isn't new, it isn't precisely communal knowledge, either. That's why whenever a institution makes it a spot easier, I'm each for it, truthful coming I'm celebrating DuckDuckGo.

DuckDuckGo now makes it easier to portion trackers from links connected iPhone

As highlighted by chap CNET Group tract ZDNet, DuckDuckGo's iOS app now includes a characteristic that automatically eliminates search elements from links. That way, you tin stock links pinch friends, family members, and coworkers without worrying astir trackers pursuing along.

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The feature, "Copy Clean Link," doesn't do thing you couldn't do yourself. As ZDNet explains, the characteristic cuts retired everything successful the URL successful mobility from the "?" on; essentially, each of the search information. Without that data, you move the URL into a "clean" link, truthful trackers won't needfully cognize you're the personification who shared that URL successful the first place. You tin do this yourself by opening the URL and deleting this matter manually, but tapping Copy Clean Link is surely much convenient.

Interestingly, the characteristic doesn't popular up erstwhile you prime a nexus the accustomed way, aliases moreover erstwhile you deed the Share button. Instead, you'll request to unfastened the nexus successful DuckDuckGo, long-press the reside bar, and take "Copy Clean Link." You'll find the aforesaid action if you pat the 3 lines successful the bottommost right, past scroll down and take "Copy Clean Link." If you simply prime the URL and usage iOS' built-in "Copy" option, you'll drawback the afloat URL—trackers and all.

DuckDuckGo's Copy Clean Link is an iOS-only characteristic for now

At this time, only iPhone users tin usage "Copy Clean Link" successful DuckDuckGo. That doesn't mean that users of different platforms are retired of luck: As antecedently mentioned, you tin manually delete each characters successful a URL starting pinch the "?" to execute the aforesaid effect. That's easier done connected desktop than mobile, of course.

If you request an alternative, Brave has a "Copy Clean Link" action arsenic well. It useful likewise to DuckDuckGo's—you tin long-press the reside barroom connected a webpage you're already visiting or, uniquely, you tin long-press immoderate nexus successful the browser to get the action too.