DuckDuckGo Starts Sharing Tracker Radar List of Companies Tracking You

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DuckDuckGo has said it's sharing a dataset of 1,727 companies, and 5,326 internet domains that are tracking you online. The dataset is open source and called Tracker Radar and you can find it on github

Vivaldi has said it's partnering with DDG and adding a tracker blocker.
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[Dimitri]

I hope there is no false positive in it... the witch hunt has begun.

[blend27]

Now all needs to be done is the data parsed and updated at daylight into a hosts file, even better the router.

[Dimitri]

From my understanding, you are caught if you domain(s) set a cookie as a third party. So my question is, why not simply block all third party cookies at the level of the Browser? (I think this is what Firefox is doing). Isn't it the same? And doesn't require to keep up a database?

[mcneely]

why not simply block all third party cookies at the level of the Browser?

I've been doing that for years .... and it's one of the reasons why I find Firefox so attractive

[aaronthompson]

| I've been doing that for years .... and it's one of the reasons why I find Firefox so attractive

Is that a simple toggle switch in Firefox?

[graeme_p]

It used to be a simple drop down (block all, allow all, block thirrd party).

Now the choices are between different levels of content blocking (strict, standard and custom). Strict blocks trackers (I assume it includes things like image based trackers), "third party tracking cookies" (presumably all third party cookies), cryptominers and fingerprinters.

There are also extensions like Privacy Badger for more fine grained control that can also block third party scripts etc.