Firewall
Trackers, ads, and badware are hidden in the apps you use every day, and in most of the top-downloaded apps on the App Store. Lockdown blocks these privacy invasions and annoyances.
How It Works
Most popular apps on the App Store contain hidden trackers that secretly send your information to marketing companies, data brokers, ad companies - basically anyone who will pay them. Normal Content Blockers and ad-blockers don't stop this tracking because they only work in Safari, or in specific browsers. That's why we created Lockdown, which blocks tracking, ads, and badware in all apps. Today, over 100,000 people have used Lockdown to block over a billion tracking attempts.
Why Lockdown Is Superior
1. Lockdown is Open Source.
This means that anyone can see exactly what it's doing, and more importantly what it's *not* doing. All the major security and privacy products (even "name brand" security products, and especially products that you see a bunch of ads for) are closed source, which means what they're doing is totally secret. As a result, they're able to secretly sell your data to the highest bidder. With closed source products, you could end up paying for a security product that annihilates your privacy, and there's no way for them to prove otherwise. A few examples:
2. Lockdown doesn't buy invasive ads, unlike other "privacy" companies.
Have you ever seen an ad for a "name brand" privacy product or app? Isn't it ironic that so-called
"privacy"
products are spending big bucks on invasive tracking/ad networks that they're supposed to be
protecting users from? What does this say about their true values?
Lockdown does not buy Facebook ads, or tracking ads of any kind, because we understand that that's the
privacy-invading system we're trying to dismantle. We rely mostly on word of mouth, the quality of our
product, and unsponsored journalism to spread our product to users. Note that for many so-called product
"reviews" out there (even for well-known places like PC Magazine), they're actually using sponsored links
in
order to make money off of their reviews - distorting their incentive to tell the truth. Lockdown never
does
this.
3. Lockdown is Openly Operated.
Openly Operated is the highest level of
transparency for a product: everything from company ownership and location, to full third party
audits, to proving its Privacy Policy.
We created the Openly Operated transparency
standard because we saw that companies were basically outright lying in their Privacy Policies. Of course,
many companies are closed source or headquartered offshore, so they're usually not caught. However, even
with companies that were actually caught, there would rarely be any kind of penalties. Openly Operated is
a
way to force companies to provide *proof* of their transparency, rather than just asserting them. You can
read about why we launched Openly Operated here.