
While this may placate some users, a lot of goodwill no doubt has been lost. "For anyone who wants to avoid this, it's possible to disable ads in DuckDuckGo search settings," the biz said, adding that it is working on removing support for with alternative non-profiling ad conversion tracking. Ie, if you tap on an advert on a DDG search results page, get taken to the advertiser's website, and the advertiser pulls a script from to detect and record whether anything you subsequently ordered was a result of that advert, the browser won't block that script. That said, Microsoft scripts from, used to measure the effectiveness of web adverts, will not be blocked by DDG's mobile browser if fetched by an advertiser's website following a DuckDuckGo ad click.
