So for Duckduckgo, this is a good move to show they are a complete, cross-device solution to private browsing."
But that doesn’t mean there won’t be a significant number who will. "And most users probably won’t go through the trouble of downloading and changing browsers. "It’s really not that private, but probably a little better than Chrome," Gold said of Safari. Most people are still comfortable using Apple's Safari browser and assume it offers a pretty private browsing environment, he said. And it provides a way to stay 'almost' anonymous while you’re browsing (nothing is 100%)."ĭuckduckgo isn't likely to become a major browser for Mac users anytime soon, if ever, according to Gold. Duckduckgo really is attractive to those people who see any amount of tracking as an invasion of privacy. "Even though Apple hypes its 'privacy,' there is still a lot of tracking going on. "DuckDuckGo has a following, and that includes among Apple aficionados," said Jack Gold, principal analyst at research firm J.
To that end, the beta has features typical to other popular browsers, including password management, tab management, bookmarks, and privacy features.ĭuckDuckGo is among a small number of privacy-oriented browsers, including Brave and Vivaldi. The browser’s cookie pop-up protection works on about 50% of sites, the company said.ĭuckDuckGo emphasized the browser isn't a replacement for Google Chrome’s “Incognito mode.” Instead, DuckDuckGo for Mac is designed for use as a routine, everyday browser. (Duckduckgo’s so-called “Fire Button” is one-click tool to clear all data in a search window.) Duckduckgoĭuckduckgo's privacy feed lets users see who wast trying to track you, lets you clear any stored data from websites you recently visited, and helps you navigate back to recent pages privately. “People want broad privacy protections, but in a convenient, easy-to-use package, so that's exactly what we built." "Like our mobile app, DuckDuckGo for Mac is an everyday browsing app with privacy as the default through our built-in privacy protections like private search, tracker blocking, HTTPS upgrading, cookie pop-up management, and our Fire Button,” Beah Burger-Lenehan, product director with DuckDuckGo said via email.
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