DuckDuckGo comes with free privacy-friendly email forwarding service
A new service has been announced by DuckDuckGo. That party is best known for the privacy-friendly search engine, now it is a forwarding service for your e-mails, where trackers are removed.
DuckDuckGo with mail service
DuckDuckGo has announced a new mail service. It is a forwarding service where privacy-sensitive matters are removed. This concerns, for example, trackers that are removed, after which the mail still arrives in your own inbox. This means that the Email Protection service is not a replacement for your Hotmail, Gmail or Outlook address, because the mails that have been ‘stripped’ will simply end up in your own mailbox after DuckDuckGo has been filtered.
Users can create a free @duck.com email address via the DuckDuckGo website that can be used to sign up. When an e-mail arrives at that e-mail address, such as a newsletter, the trackers are first removed, after which the e-mail is forwarded to the set e-mail address. With the e-mail that ends up in your mailbox, you can also see which trackers have been removed. Last year, the Email Protection service was already tested in a closed beta, now everyone can use the service. DuckDuckGo also says it’s trying to replace relatively insecure HTTP:// links with HTTPS://.
As a user you can create an unlimited number of aliases and have them forwarded to your own email address. According to the company, no emails are stored on DuckDuckGo’s servers. You can sign up via the DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser or via the extensions for different browsers, via this link.
