For Moxie, the firm's approach undercuts the attempts of privacy-focused projects to provide real security.
He cited Google's ban of privacy-focused app Disconnect from its official store as one example.
Zimperium also offers a fix and users of the privacy-focused Blackphone and Mozilla Firefox are protected.
Snowden told the webchat hosted by the Dutch privacy-focused search engine StartPage he was comfortable with and proud of the choices he had made.
Usually these 'chain letters' spread rapidly across the social graph only to fizzle out even faster, but these privacy-focused posts seem to have a far greater longevity.
Fortunately, there is a privacy-focused, robust program called the Digital Advertising Alliance privacy self-regulation program that puts the individual first.
The trend, clearly illustrated in the EFF's scorecard, was for niche privacy-focused apps to get lots of green ticks, and for the mainstream, popular apps to get lots of red stop signs.
The encrypted, privacy-focused messaging app Telegram is taking action to block its use by Islamic State, after it was discovered the group was using the app's public channels to spread propaganda.
Apple's iOS has always been closed, and has shown some privacy-focused apps the door too, including Clueful, a tool created by security firm BitDefender that shines a light on what apps are doing with users' data.
This makes DuckDuckGo the first privacy-focused search engine to be added to one of the top four browsers and is a huge milestone for both us and privacy supporters.
If you would like a more guarded browsing experience that has a more earnest approach to secure web browsing, consider trying out a privacy-focused browser such as Dooble, Comodo Dragon or SRWare Iron.
