
It aims to offer you privacy-friendly settings out of the box without any marketing gimmicks.

The feature set should be similar to what you find in the DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser on mobile. Instead of forking Chromium or anything else, we’re building our desktop app around the OS-provided rendering engines (like on mobile), allowing us to strip away a lot of the unnecessary cruft and clutter that’s accumulated over the years in major browsers. They also mention that this should enable them to remove all the unnecessary stuff usually available with popular web browsers: We still do not have enough information on it, but here’s what we know so far… DuckDuckGo Desktop Browser Using OS-Specific Rendering Engines First Look at DuckDuckGo Desktop BrowserĭuckDuckGo will not create its rendering engine from scratch instead, it plans to rely on OS-provided rendering engines to build the browser (mostly WebKit). In a new blog post, DuckDuckGo announced that it is working on a desktop browser that focuses on privacy that is not based on Chromium (as most would expect). The DuckDuckGo browser extension, the mobile app, email protection service (beta), and app tracking protection (beta) are some of the useful services that they have been working on.

DuckDuckGo is a private search engine that has made a lot of progress.
