DuckDuckGo to search the web without saving personal data should be known to all. Also the browser as a mobile app for iOS and Android. But now DuckDuckGo is also planning a desktop browser.
Yesterday, Gabriel Weinberg wrote a blog post about the improvements the company outlined for search and mobile browsers in 2021, and also provided an outlook for 2022. Because you want to make the DuckDuckGo browser available for the desktop (Windows, Mac, and Linux).
As we already know from mobile phones, there will be no levels of data protection, but “only reliable data protection”. It is interesting that DuckDuckGo Browser will not rely on Chromium or Gecko as the browser engine, but instead “In the rendering engines provided by the operating system (such as mobile), which allows us to remove a lot of unnecessary weight that has accumulated over the years in major browsers…. Compared to Chrome, the DuckDuckGo-App for desktop cleaner, more peculiarity, and according to initial tests, it is also noticeably faster!”
I’m curious to see if the new browser can steal Brave’s website as a privacy browser. Everything that happened at DuckDuckGo this year could be so You can read it here.