{"id":216351,"date":"2025-06-21T06:15:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/duckduckgo-beefs-up-scam-defense-to-block-fake-stores-crypto-sites"},"modified":"2025-06-21T06:15:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:15:51","slug":"duckduckgo-beefs-up-scam-defense-to-block-fake-stores-crypto-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/duckduckgo-beefs-up-scam-defense-to-block-fake-stores-crypto-sites","title":{"rendered":"DuckDuckGo beefs up scam defense to block fake stores, crypto sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/duckduckgo-beefs-up-scam-defense-to-block-fake-stores-crypto-sites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The DuckDuckGo web browser has expanded its built-in Scam Blocker tool to protect against a broader range of online scams, including fake e-commerce, cryptocurrency exchanges, and \u201cscareware\u201d sites.<\/p>\n<p>DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused web browser and search engine that doesn\u2019t track users\u2019 searchers or browsing history.<\/p>\n<p>The browser, which became available as a public beta for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/duckduckgo-for-mac-enters-public-beta-now-available-to-everyone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">macOS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/duckduckgo-browser-for-windows-available-for-everyone-as-public-beta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Windows<\/a> in October 2022 and June 2023, respectively, blocks all trackers by default, does not engage in personalized search profiling, and offers powerful anonymity tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DuckDuckGo web browser has expanded its built-in Scam Blocker tool to protect against a broader range of online scams, including fake e-commerce, cryptocurrency exchanges, and \u201cscareware\u201d sites. DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused web browser and search engine that doesn\u2019t track users\u2019 searchers or browsing history. The browser, which became available as a public beta for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}