The browser is also touted to offer a faster graphics performance over the Google offering.ĭuckDuckGo is using the same rendering engine that is powering Safari on macOS to make the browser most compatible with the Mac system. The protection will expand to other sites throughout beta, the company said.īy blocking trackers, DuckDuckGo claims that it uses about 60 percent less data than Chrome. Unlike an existing Web browser, DuckDuckGo for Mac comes with the cookie pop-up protection that helps reject annoying cookie tracking pop-ups from 50 percent of the websites at this moment. The same experience is coming to desktops through the new move.

It is claimed to have been downloaded over 150 million times since launch. In 2018, DuckDuckGo stepped into the world of Web browsers by launching its first browser for mobile devices. It also has DuckDuckGo as the default search engine. The new browser, which is currently in beta testing for macOS, is claimed to offer inbuilt privacy features, including cookie pop-up protection and a feature called Smarter Encryption that helps navigate to the encrypted (HTTPS) of websites.

DuckDuckGo - the privacy-focussed Internet search engine - has introduced a desktop browser to take on the likes of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

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