David González
@dggonzalez
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Senior Android Engineer @DuckDuckGo @GoogleDevExpert for Android. Previously @Mixtiles @HelpScout @Novoda. 2/2 @the_remote_dev. Home brewing and Charcuterie
London / Belgium
Joined July 2008
DuckDuckGo is looking for early beta testers for our new Windows browser app. DM me if you'd be willing to test and contribute to shaping the direction of the product.
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The wait is over! 🏃🏻 Block creepy trackers in your Android apps with our App Tracking Protection. As of today, it's available for all Android users in open beta.
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Block 3rd-party trackers lurking in your apps with DuckDuckGo's App Tracking Protection, now in open beta!
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Thanks for coming to the session! Slides are available at https://t.co/76hpmtKuyQ. Reach out if you have any comments or questions, and thanks @oredev for being so accommodating. Looking forward to being in person next year!
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The vast majority of mobile applications leverage the use of third party libraries. Besides their main purpose, many of them will also collect and send …
How much of your private information is being sent to third parties? @dggonzalez is here to tell you! 🔍 https://t.co/jkBUYHFk9A
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Did you know that more than 90% of websites and apps are tracking you? @dggonzalez's session "A comprehensive guide to tracker protection on Android" will focus on what APIs and workarounds can be done on Android to stop those trackers. Check it out! https://t.co/jkBUYHFk9A
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This is what we've been working on this for the past months and it's really exciting to see it live. Join the waitlist! https://t.co/l1dUS9MLUE
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Thanks to you, over the last 12 months we’ve been DuckDuckGrowing like crazy! • More than 50M app downloads • 55% increase in search traffic • Became the #2 search engine on mobile in the U.S., Canada, Australia, the Netherlands & more https://t.co/tnZGvzWBPs
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📣 Ya está disponible en tu plataforma de podcast favorita el último episodio de #ChimichurriCode. Hoy charlamos con los #AndroidDev de @DuckDuckGo 🦆 y nos hablan de privacidad 🤫, de gestión de proyectos 📒, de webviews 🌎 y de muchísimo más. 📻 https://t.co/w0IiWQb4zC
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I just installed Android 12 and saw the new mandatory Splash Screen for all apps... it's yeah... something else... I hope it ends up being opt-in.
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"Signal doesn’t have access to messages; chat lists; groups; contacts; stickers; profile names/avatars; or even GIFs." That’s why we suggest @signalapp for messaging. With end-to-end encryption by default, they simply don't have your data (like us):
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It’s the first half of 2021 – nearly five years since the “first half of 2016” – but in many ways not much has changed. The United Kingdom is still trying to figure out Brexit, another Justin Bieber...
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Congrats @MarkIAllison, back to the Premier League where you belong. C'mon the boys! Now, about all those Spanish managers...
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Facebook's data leak exposed "names, birthdays, gender, location & more, with each dataset made freely available online." Check if your data was leaked: https://t.co/iz0J98DKQQ If so, beware of potential phishing scams & fraudulent calls. https://t.co/cPfUvcZOlD
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The data is old but that doesn’t mean it still can’t be used.
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So now that npm is safely in the arms of Microsoft and the investors all got their money I can tell you about the time I completely lost faith in the banking system by borrowing $300,000 for 10 minutes.
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After months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome and the Google app. No wonder they wanted to hide it. Spying on users has nothing to do with building a great web browser or search engine. We would know (our app is both in one).
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Calling all C# developers: We're building a new way to use DuckDuckGo on Windows and we need your help. Learn more about this position, or check out all our other open roles:
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Join the team at DuckDuckGo! Find out about our company culture, hiring process, and open positions.
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It's Gabriel Batistuta's birthday today. So to celebrate, here's a thread of some of Batigol's greatest goals! 🇦🇷
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Global Privacy Control (GPC), the setting exercising your legal right to opt-out of the sale & sharing of personal data, is now enabled by default in the DuckDuckGo app & extension. It's also respected by @nytimes – @washingtonpost & @automattic to follow. https://t.co/A87ZDSrisC
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Global Privacy Control (GPC), the setting exercising your legal right to opt-out of the sale & sharing of personal data, is now enabled by default in the DuckDuckGo app & extension.
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When (if) this pandemic is over I want to go to a conference with all the Android friends I haven't seen in a while and... just hang out, eat nice food and share fun stories from this period time.
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Things that "are not America" sure happen a lot in America
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to make it here without dying is the epitome of white privilege
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