Jon Callas, director of technology projects at the EFF, said that while his privacy-focused organzation does not endorse any products or browsers, DuckDuckGo has 'done a lot of work to improve the privacy aspects of searches.'ĭuckDuckGo is among a small number of privacy-oriented browsers, including Brave and Vivaldi. The HTTPS Everywhere browser is a Firefox, Chrome, and Opera extension that encrypts user communications with many major websites, making browsing more secure. The partnership resulted in the enhancement of DuckDuckGo's HTTPS Everywhere browser extension by incorporating rule sets from DuckDuckGo Smarter Encryption. In April, DuckDuckGo partnered with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to enhance secure browsing and protect user information on the web. The Pennsylvania-based company said its desktop app is cleaner, more private, and faster than Google’s Chrome browser.ĭuckDuckGo also said that over the past year it has revamped its search results page to give it a more simple and modern design, and continued to refine and improve local, maps, and directions results.

“It's not a ‘privacy browser’ it's an everyday browsing app that respects your privacy because there's never a bad time to stop companies from spying on your search and browsing history,” DuckDuckGo said. The DuckDuckGo browser will have no complicated settings, no “misleading” warnings, and no “levels” of privacy protection - “just robust privacy protection that works by default, across search, browsing, email, and more,” the company said in a blog post. A release date has not yet been set, but DuckDuckGo is currently soliciting beta testers.

The desktop browser is in closed beta testing for the Mac right now, with a Windows version also planned in the future.

DuckDuckGo for desktop is built around OS-provided rendering engines, which is similar to how the DuckDuckGo mobile apps work it will not use a Chromium fork as other browser offerings do.

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