DuckDuckGo’s browser now protects you from fake crypto exchanges and scareware

DuckDuckGoThe web browser and the search engine focused on confidentiality, a extended The scope of its swindle ignition tool. In addition to being able to protect you from attempts at pHishing and standard malware, crooks now also cover the false electronic shopping windows, investigation sites and cypto-money exchanges, as well as the “Scareware” pages wrongly affirming that your device is infected and that you click on a button or a link to clean it.

If the tool determines that you have clicked on a link leading to one of these websites, it prevents the page from fully loading. Instead, it shows you a warning message indicating that the website may be a security risk and that it has been reported to “try to manipulate people in the transfer of money, the purchase of counterfeit goods or the installation of malware”. The warning also allows you to keep yourself safely from the scam website without loading it.

DuckDuckGo has built scams itself, and it does not compose on Google technology like other browsers. The company said it means that it does not send data to third parties and that it does not follow your activities. It constantly refreshes its unhealthy URL list of the independent provider of Internet Services Netcraft and transmits the updates of its browser every 20 minutes. This list of dangerous sites lives locally on your device, and the tool checks the URLs that you visit against it to determine whether to show you a warning message.

The scam blocker is completely free on the desktop and the web, and it is lit by default. If you pay the $ 10 subscription service on DuckDuckGo’s privacy, the scam will even protect you while using other browsers.