Privacy as a service
Deploy world-class tracker protection without the engineering overhead. Our continuously maintained tracker-classification system identifies and categorizes tracking technologies across the web, so you can ship privacy features that protect users without breaking sites or degrading performance.
Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge browsers use our tracker-protection data to power their default privacy features.
Customer
Firefox and Edge depend on Disconnect’s authoritative tracker-classification system to identify, categorize, and manage tracking technologies across the web.
Challenge
Determining which domains truly function as trackers is complex and resource-intensive. Many domains that appear to be tracking cannot be blocked without breaking site functionality. Further, many potential trackers are false positives, as they are actually owned by the websites they collect data on.
Solution
By integrating our continuously maintained tracker-protection data, Firefox and Edge deliver best-in-class privacy protections without sacrificing compatibility or performance.
Result
Superior privacy protection and improved performance, delivered more efficiently and cost-effectively than any internal solution.
Impact
Independent benchmarks confirmed that our protection improves page-load speed by 2.4×, lowers error rates, and consistently delivers best-in-class performance.
Google partnered with Disconnect to verify that domains on its Masked Domain List (MDL) met the required criteria.
Customer
Google's Chrome team depended on Disconnect's domain-intelligence data to evaluate and verify domains for the MDL.
Challenge
At internet scale, accurately identifying and categorizing domains that appear in a third-party context is complex and time-consuming. Google also needed clarity on the business purpose of each domain and whether it truly fit MDL criteria.
Solution
Google established formal criteria for MDL inclusion and partnered with Disconnect to apply those criteria using our rich, continuously maintained domain-intelligence datasets.
Result
The collaboration produced a thoroughly validated MDL containing thousands of accurately classified domains.
Impact
Based on the quality and independence of our analysis, Google expanded Disconnect's responsibilities to oversee and independently manage appeals from the MDL.
Enterprise software provider integrates tracker protection to differentiate their product and meet customer compliance requirements.
Customer
A B2B software company building productivity tools for enterprise clients needed to offer privacy-preserving features that would satisfy the stringent security and compliance requirements of their Fortune 500 customer base.
Challenge
Enterprise customers increasingly demand that software vendors demonstrate robust privacy protections and compliance with regulations like GDPR and CCPA. Building an in-house tracker-classification system would require significant engineering resources, ongoing maintenance, and specialized expertise that would divert focus from core product development. Without authoritative privacy protections, the company risked losing enterprise deals to competitors who could demonstrate stronger privacy credentials.
Solution
By integrating Disconnect's continuously maintained tracker-classification data via API, the company rapidly deployed enterprise-grade privacy protections without building proprietary infrastructure. The integration enabled their product to automatically identify and block tracking technologies, providing customers with verifiable privacy guarantees backed by the same technology trusted by major browsers.
Result
The privacy integration became a key differentiator in enterprise sales conversations, directly contributing to winning multiple Fortune 500 contracts. Customers valued the transparency and third-party validation that Disconnect's classification system provided, simplifying compliance audits and reducing procurement friction.
Impact
The integration reduced our time-to-market for privacy features from an estimated 18 months of internal development to just 6 weeks. More importantly, having Disconnect's trusted classification system gave our enterprise customers confidence that our privacy claims were backed by the same technology protecting hundreds of millions of browser users worldwide.