Disconnect is a partly open source[1] browser extension and mobile app designed to stop non-consensual third party trackers,[2] and providing private web search and private web browsing.
Disconnect-Search had once been the default search engine of the security-focused Tor Browser, which now uses DuckDuckGo.
[4][5] The Electronic Frontier Foundation compared the app to its own Privacy Badger browser plugin.
[2] The app was banned from the Google Play Store five days after its release in late August 2014.
[2][6] This, however, attracted criticism from parties such as EFF (and Disconnect itself) which saw this app as privacy-friendly, and argue that Google's motivations are primarily based on the fact that this app interferes with ad-based revenue models of numerous companies, including Google itself.