Qwacky

A home for your DuckDuckGo @duck.com addresses. Generate, organise and send from them, right in your browser.

Why Qwacky?  •  Features  •  Privacy  •  Install manually  •  Development  •  Support the Project

🦆 Why Qwacky?

DuckDuckGo Email Protection gives you private @duck.com addresses that forward to your real inbox with email trackers removed. Qwacky is a dedicated home for those addresses.

The DuckDuckGo extension treats an alias as something you generate and forget. Qwacky treats it as something you manage: a searchable history with notes and tags, send addresses with their own history, several Duck accounts side by side, autofill from the right-click menu or a keyboard shortcut, light and dark themes, backups and sync, and usage statistics computed on your device. It asks for one host permission, runs no analytics, and does nothing else.

✨ Features

• Private @duck.com addresses: generate a fresh alias from the popup, the right-click menu or a keyboard shortcut
• A home for every alias: searchable history with notes, tags, grouping and filtering
• Send privately: turn any recipient into a send address so your real one stays hidden
• Multiple accounts: manage and switch between colour-coded Duck accounts in one place
• Your numbers, on your device: usage statistics with nothing sent anywhere
• Your data, portable: cross-device sync, plus backup and restore
• Your call: privacy mode that stores nothing, compact mode, light and dark themes
• And more on the way

🔒 Privacy

• Talks only to DuckDuckGo, and to your browser's sync if you turn it on
• Everything is stored on your device, with no servers, analytics or tracking
• Autofill permissions are optional and off until you enable them
• Open source, so every claim here can be checked

Read the full privacy policy for what is stored and why each permission is needed.

📦 Install manually

Every release on GitHub includes both builds, if you'd rather not use a store or need a specific version.

Chrome, Edge, Brave and other Chromium browsers

1. Download chrome-vX.Y.Z.zip from the release and unzip it
2. Open your extensions page (chrome://extensions, or edge://extensions in Edge) and turn on Developer mode
3. Click Load unpacked and pick the unzipped folder

A build loaded this way doesn't update itself, so check Releases for new versions.

Firefox

1. Download firefox-vX.Y.Z.xpi from the release, it's signed by Mozilla
2. Open about:addons, click the gear icon and choose Install Add-on From File...
3. Pick the downloaded file

💻 Development

Requires Node.js 16 or newer.

git clone https://github.com/Lanshuns/Qwacky.git
cd Qwacky
npm install
npm run dev            # Chrome, watches into dist_chrome/
npm run dev:firefox    # Firefox, watches into dist_firefox/
npm run build          # production build (build:firefox for Firefox)

Load dist_chrome/ with "Load unpacked" in chrome://extensions/, or load dist_firefox/manifest.json from about:debugging > This Firefox > "Load Temporary Add-on".

💖 Support the Project

• Star the repository on GitHub, it helps others discover the project
• Leave a review on the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons, it makes a big difference
• Donate via cryptocurrency:

Currency	Address
Bitcoin (BTC)	bc1qmmwwsn4cvpsx39sf53qsqcjyjzsqp90lus365w
Ethereum (ETH)	0x08658772EeC32e72456048Be5D5a52bd3bcb01bc
Litecoin (LTC)	LKYDeJWeo3kMG1TbY4cqSi87wFeR6YUXP2
USDT (TRON/TRX)	TAhdRW3nJxinWjrdYfSWB31RdjRkQKvkEq
USDT (BEP-20)	0x08658772EeC32e72456048Be5D5a52bd3bcb01bc

If you'd like to be recognized for your donation, feel free to open an issue with your name and transaction ID, and I'll add you to the supporters list!

🙏 Acknowledgments

This project is a derivative work based on DuckDuckGo's Email Protection service, which is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. The original work's copyright notice:

Copyright (c) 2010-2021 Duck Duck Go, Inc.

For the full license text, see APACHE-LICENSE.