It has also introduced features in its mobile app that undercut Google’s data collection efforts. The CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, talks about it a lot on Twitter. The company is also open about its antagonism to Google. Product improvements have fueled our growth, making DuckDuckGo the most downloaded browsing app on Android in our major markets, #2 on iOS, and resulting in 150M+ downloads of our apps & extensions since 2018. The search engine has exploded in popularity, and now upward of 9% of the U.S. That being said, DuckDuckGo has quite a bit of traction. Developing fully native apps requires even more manpower, something Microsoft learned the hard way with Microsoft Edge. Chromium, on the other hand, can work all the major operating systems. However, that means developing multiple apps to get the most optimized experience on each operating system. You can find a more thorough explanation of WebView here. Building the app from the ground up lets the company optimize the app for the system while leaving behind all the bloat that has accumulated on Chromium over the years. In layman’s terms, DuckDuckGo is developing native apps for the major operating systems that essentially run a browser inside them. That’s what we’ve used to build our app on desktop.” “MacOS and Windows both now offer website rendering APIs (WebView/WebView2) that any application can use to render a website. So if the company isn’t using Chromium, what will it use? Well, according to Allison Johnson, in an interview with The Verge, shed some light on their plans.
Look out for our new desktop app, which brings the privacy & speed of our mobile app (finally!) to desktop. We can't wait for what's to come in 2022. Plucky v1.0.10+ has several features you can use to enforce safe searching and browsing. (note this image incorrectly shows “my safe duckduckgo” instead of “safe duckduckgo”. Enter: safe duckduckgoįind “safe duckduckgo” in the list of engines. The following screenshots were taken using Chromium 85 on Linux your local version of Chrome (or Chromium, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, etc.) will have cosmetic differences.Ī long list of search engine options should appear. This page is not meant to imply DuckDuckGo’s safe search is better than any other search engine DuckDuckGo is used for illustrative purposes.
This page shows how to configure Chrome to use “safe” DuckDuckGo by default with the result that when you type something in the location bar in Chrome and hit, DuckDuckGo is used by default. How to set default search engine in Chrome.How to set default search engine in Chrome | Plucky manual
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