It seems unbelievable, but it’s been more than a year since DuckDuckGo announced that it was working on a privacy solution for email, and at the same time opened a private beta where any user who wanted to, but who was finally access quite limited. Fortunately, the tests seem to have gone well, and so have the companies has finally opened up DuckDuckGo Email Protection to all users who want to use it.

To protect user privacy, this service allows you to create an email address, but it is not an email account to use. Its function is to receive all messages that they achieve the same remove all kinds of trackers original news for, once clean, rSend it to your defined email account for this purpose. To guarantee security, DuckDuckGo indicates that this entire process is in-memory, that is, the emails you receive will never be stored on their servers because 100% of the operation is done in memory.

They also state something obvious, but worth remembering, that new trackers appear every day, which they try to respond to as soon as possible, but prevents 100% compromise of filtering these elements. In other words, emails will arrive much cleaner than in the original version, but at some point a tracker may creep in. In other words, it doesn’t guarantee absolute purity, but it doesn’t stray too far from that point either. Something even more valuable considering that we are talking about a free service.

Using DuckDuckGo is really easy. you just have to download the DuckDuckGo privacy extension for your browser, go to this URL and follow the instructions that will be provided, which are really limited to configuring the @duck.com email address, choosing which email account you want to receive emails processed by DuckDuckGo, and voila, from that moment you can start using this address.

In addition, DuckDuckGo also offers you the option create disposable addresses, which is especially handy if you have to register on a site that inspires mistrust. This way, the identity of your real email addresses will be protected quickly and easily. To get one of these disposable addresses, just open the extension menu and click on Create a new duck address.