DuckDuckGo is building a privacy-first desktop browser for macOS<div id="link_wrapped_content">
<body><section class="wp-block-bigbite-multi-title"><div class="container"></div></section><p><a href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://duckduckgo.com/&xcust=1-1-561374-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" rel="nofollow">DuckDuckGo[/url] started as a simple idea: A search engine site that respects your privacy. It doesn’t remember your searches, store information about you, embed trackers, or in any other way violate your privacy. </p>
<p>It works well and has become quite popular, so the company wanted to go further. First, it built a <a href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://apps.apple.com/us/app/duckduckgo-privacy-browser/id663592361&xcust=1-1-561374-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" rel="nofollow">mobile browser for iOS[/url] and Android that’s just as privacy-minded as the search engine with has a nifty Fire Button that instantly “burns” all your data and local history. It enforces encryption, blocks hidden trackers, and more.</p>
<p>In a <a href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-2021-review/&xcust=1-1-561374-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" rel="nofollow">blog post[/url] summing up the company’s accomplishments through 2021, the company revealed that a
desktop browser is also on the way for multiple platforms, starting with macOS.</p>
<p>The announcement is light on details, but DuckDuckGo says the browser is built around “OS-provided rendering engines,” (which means WebKit on macOS) rather than creating a new Chromium fork or something similar. There are no privacy levels or warnings, just always-on protection from various forms of tracking and fingerprinting. It’s intended to be a light, simple, clean everyday browser.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in trying it out, the <a href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://twitter.com/beahbl/status/1473275775868669952&xcust=1-1-561374-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" rel="nofollow">Senior Product Director has tweeted[/url] that they are looking for some beta testers. </p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Want to be one of the very first people to try DuckDuckGo's macOS desktop app? I could use a few more beta users this week. DM me. <a href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://t.co/aXoidvJNed&xcust=1-1-561374-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" rel="nofollow">
https://t.co/aXoidvJNed[/url]</p>— beah burger-lenehan (@beahbl) <a href="
https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=111346X1569486&url=https://twitter.com/beahbl/status/1473275775868669952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&xcust=1-1-561374-1-0-0&sref=https://www.macworld.com/feed" rel="nofollow">December 21, 2021[/url]<script async src="
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></figure><p>The blog post claims that, “Compared to Chrome, the DuckDuckGo app for desktop is cleaner, way more private, and early tests have found it significantly faster too!” It’s been a while since a new exciting web browser came around for the Mac, so we’re definitely excited to give it a try.</p>
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DuckDuckGo is building a privacy-first desktop browser for macOS
