The DuckDuckGo Email Protection Beta is now available and cost-free to use: This is how.

On Thursday, the privacy-focused web browser DuckDuckGo announced that its email protection service, which had been in development, is now open to all users. Users may create a free “@duck.com” email address, and email trackers are intercepted before they reach their personal inboxes.

With the help of the free email forwarding service DuckDuckGo Email Protection, users may instantly generate an infinite number of private, unique email addresses without having to change email services or applications. It also eliminates various covert email trackers.

Link Tracking Protection, which helps avoid tracking in email links, Smarter Encryption, which helps with unencrypted email links, and the capability to reply straight from your Duck Addresses are further new capabilities that have been enabled, according to the business.

Install the most recent version of the DuckDuckGo mobile app (iOS/Android), enter Settings, and choose Email Protection.

On desktop, you can navigate to duckduckgo.com/email while using a DuckDuckGo browser extension (Firefox/Chrome/Edge/Brave) or DuckDuckGo for Mac (beta).

Companies insert trackers into email messages’ graphics and links so they may gather information on when and where recipients view emails as well as the devices they used.

“We discovered that almost 85% of the beta testers’ emails in our private Email Protection beta had hidden email trackers. Businesses may use this data to create a profile of you, “DuckDuckGo said.

Your email address is linked to a lot of your online activities, including shopping, using social media, and more, so tracking businesses can use it to identify you for profiling purposes.

According to the business, “Email Protection works flawlessly in the background to deliver your more private communications right to your inbox.”

DuckDuckGo automatically recognizes email fields while you browse various websites, giving you the option to create a distinctive Private Duck Address for added security against email address profiling.

Private Duck Addresses also forward emails with privacy enhancements to your personal mailbox, just as your Personal Duck Address, it said.