When it comes to the choice of lists, we are proud to be partnering with DuckDuckGo and incorporate DuckDuckGo’s Tracker Radar-powered blocklist. The way Vivaldi blocks trackers is by relying on a list of well-known tracker URLs and stopping requests to those URLs before they are sent. It has taken us several months of development but I am very happy to announce that Vivaldi now has a built-in Tracker blocker which will prevent you from being followed around the web by the ubiquitous web trackers. While we continue to campaign against tracking and data collection, the sheer scale of tracking made it imperative for us to create a more immediate solution to protect Vivaldi users. “Having will make it easier for people to use DuckDuckGo.Ever since we launched Vivaldi browser, we’ve been vocal proponents of privacy – campaigning against tracking and data collection.īut in the time we’ve been building Vivaldi, the number of web trackers has skyrocketed and today there are billions of trackers out there. “We’re pleased Google has chosen to transfer ownership of to DuckDuckGo,” said Weinberg at the time.
Last December, DuckDuckGo acquired the domain from Google, which now redirects to the search engine. “That means there was an affirmative decision somewhere along the line to redirect that particular domain to their search product.” “Google owns lots of domains that don’t point anywhere, or not to their main search page,” said DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg in a 2010 post on the company’s support forum. In a series of tweets in 2018, DuckDuckGo accused Google of abusing its power to hinder the search engine’s proliferation on the Chrome and Android platforms - namely by making it impossible to change the default search provider in Android’s search widget, which uses Google searches.Īnd after acquiring the domain through the 2010 purchase of video technology company On2 (formerly The Duck Corporation), Google redirected the URL to its own search page.
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