So will uBlock Origin be "crippled" in this browser, like in Chrome/Chromium and Safari?
DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
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Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
#52Too bad they don't show in the User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Would love to show the amount of visitors in Simple Analytics dashboards. [1] Does anybody know a way to detect the DuckDuckGo browser? [1] https://www.simpleanalyics.com
> Does anybody know a way to detect the DuckDuckGo browser?
Only in the DDG iOS app the useragent adds a DuckDuckGo string appended to a generic Safari string. You can test here:
Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
#53Too bad they don't show in the User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Would love to show the amount of visitors in Simple Analytics dashboards. [1] Does anybody know a way to detect the DuckDuckGo browser? [1] https://www.simpleanalyics.com
Brave does something similar. It just looks like a generic version of chrome
It didn't always have a generic Chrome UA, if you go here[0] it had 'Brave' somewhere in the string, which you could fix by turning on fingerprinting prevention. Glad they fixed that. I don't want people to know I use Brave, although I'm sure there's ways to detect Brave with JS.
[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+my+useragent&ia=answer
Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
#54For those who know a lot more than I do, how does this compare to Brave?
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Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
#55For those who know a lot more than I do, how does this compare to Brave?
It's not that great. Brave is ahead when it comes to privacy and features and does a lot of things differently.
Also the fact that their contract requires them to whitelist Microsoft trackers is something to be wary of.
https://brave.com/privacy-features/
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...
Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
#56Everytime you use an app instead of a web app you have to trust the author of the app not to permanently track you. Use web apps wherevery you can and delete the cookies and web storage whenever it makes sense.
All apps should have a PWA[0] option. Crpytee[1] is the only service I know of that offers strictly a PWA. PWAs have less privileges and this is good.
Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
#57I used to be a fan of DuckDuckGo. I mained it as my search engine for a long while because it was better for privacy, and it gave me my choice. Then, they decided that they were the arbiters of truth, and they'd start censoring "Russian disinformation campaigns." Because apparently that's important to them. The fact that they also get most of their results from Bing also subtracts points. I also eventually realized t…
(I'm the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo.) It is simply not true that we have censored anything or made ourselves "the arbiters of truth." I realized I previously explained how our news rankings work very poorly on Twitter but I subsequently put out a clarification tweet[1] and then we made this help page with a much clearer (and detailed) explanation of how our news rankings work: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-…
> Search ranking and censorship are entirely different things
They are not, actually. Especially when you already have made your plans public previously based on your reaction to a political situation.
Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not very inclined to discuss mRNA on a tech forum, but "fact-checkers" do also fall under this kind of umbrella, yeah. Any large organization presenting what they claim to be the truth is subject to all sorts of unscientific biases, which is why it's so important that people aren't shouted down, that sites aren't de-ranked. If you let anyone but individual people decide their conclusions, it's a nice, paved, flow…
"P.S. For those who believe that putting "fact-checkers" in quotes is denying truth, promoting misinformation, etc, etc -- I put it in quotes because even giving them that title gives them more power than they should have." It's part of the same problem of media et al referencing "experts" or "the science" - where the majority of society seems to blindly trust those words or concepts, trusting that the utterers of it…
My dad is a expert video-game fact checker and Half-Life 3 should be coming out tomorrow.
Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
#59Will this eat more battery than Chrome does?
Rough guess: no. It's based on WebKit so it should perform more similarly to Safari than Chrome.
Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
#60> All the app code – tab and bookmark management, our new tab page, our password manager, etc. – is written by our own engineers. For rendering, it uses a public macOS API, making it super compatible with Mac devices. Is this a new way of saying that they use Webkit?
I wonder why they went with WebKit? It is nice to see another WebKit browser and not just a Blink/Chromium spinoff. Still it is a surprising choice, even if there's really only WebKit and Blink available for wannabe browser makers.
Because it is a standard Apple API so less work to do.