DDG and app tracking blocking

I'm wondering how many are trying this out and if someone with the right skills here (or elsewhere) actually tested it.

From a quick looks it does the job well. I wonder how it works exactly (has a list of known IP addresses and blocks traffic to those? Does it follow what information other apps are collecting, if so, probably means DDG collects it all? Etc)

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pumpsnabben@beehaw.org · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

As far as I know their blocking list is public

https://github.com/duckduckgo/tracker-blocklists

anonymous8900T@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y

I see, thanks! Even if it doesn't work, it shows what it's blocking based on an open source list of people updating it constantly. This is good.

AccurstDemon@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 3y

I've been using it for several months and it works really well. Now I have it on all my devices.