Google, Meta, and Amazon are among the top companies tracking you across the web. By automatically blocking their trackers, Privacy Badger makes it harder for Big Tech companies to profit from your personal information. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/online-tracking-out-control-privacy-badger-can-help-you-fight-back
@eff not only do they track you across the various sites but also through various apps. Best to put all such apps on a second account. Alternatively, the #DuckDuckGo browser for mobile has a set of protections to deal with the pesky trackers.
@barefootstache @eff To add, browser exploits are common. Dozens of high severity vulnerabilities are found every update for Firefox/Chromium. They are also often the most widely exploited.
I recommend people use either Cromite (https://github.com/uazo/cromite) with additional blocklists or/and Ironfox (https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox) with uBlock Origin. Or literally anything you want, just not a WebView browser. Best case scenario for using a WebView browser is on GrapheneOS because tit is security hardened and degoogled.
Also I assume you were referring to Android. If you are on iOS, it is sad to say but all browser are just Safari skins. Use DDG on iOS if you want.
@barefootstache @eff The DuckDuckGo browser on mobile (Android) is a WebView browser which is effectively a widget desig ed to display web contents in any app by using the system WebView (regular Chrome on any OEM Android). It lacks basically any protections for per-site process isolation. This means a malicious site can compromise other open pages with a single exploit instead of multiple required in any full browser. It also doesn't have per-site data isolation, which makes tracking across sessions easy. Since DDG can't update your system WebView, you rely on system updates to maintain the security of your browser. Since the default WebView on most Android phones is Chrome, it comes with a lot of tracking built in. Even though it has a good content blocker, that is only a bandage on the underlying problem that DDG browser is not a full browser.
Here is a link for more info on the topic. It is more than a year old but nothing has changed to make it any less relevant. The top of page has explainations of the terms, the link skips directly to the bottom area about WebView browsers: https://web.archive.org/web/20250116165528/https://divestos.org/pages/browsers#webview