What you need: DuckDuckGo email address, plus browser extension or phone app
Time required: 30 minutes
Sign up to an email newsletter, or give your address to an online store, and you never know how they’ll use it. They might embed a tracker in their emails and follow you around the web, building up a picture of your interests so they can target you with personalisedadverts. To stop this, use the email-forwarding service from privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo, which has just come out of beta (see www.snipca.com/43246). Create an ‘@duck.com’ address and it will forward messages to your inbox, having first removed trackers.
STEP 1
To sign up through a browser, you must first install the DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials extension. If you’re using any browser other than Firefox, you’ll need the Chrome Extension, which you’ll find at. Click the ‘Add to…’ button to add it to your browser. If you’re using Firefox, you’ll find the extension at . Click ‘Add to Firefox’.
