Title: I didn&#x27;t really believe my eyes when I saw it the first time, I thought it had to be some ad specific to the website.<p>But it appears every form accepting an email on any website I visit now gets a small duck icon next to it that pops up a big bold-print message box to &quot;Protect your inbox &quot; complete with a cheeky prompt to either &quot;get email protection&quot; or &quot;maybe later.&quot; Refusal is not even an option. This is definitely new for me as of today.[0]<p>I found DuckDuckGo via Hackernews and have generally been a happy user of both the search engine and the privacy extension. Why could they possibly be doing this? It seems like a self-destructive act from a branding standpoint, I can&#x27;t imagine their target customer demographic is amicable to this kind of thing.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;p1tcoikka0ka1.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;p1tcoikka0ka1.png</a><p>Edit: It&#x27;s even on Hackernews! I genuinely can&#x27;t recall a browser extension acting like this since the mid-00s adware toolbar days. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;vYjZAUK.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;vYjZAUK.png</a><p>Edit again: This post originally just said &quot;injecting ads into web forms,&quot; I edited the title to clarify - apologies if that was misleading.
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