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> 1. Download the DuckDuckGo mobile app (or update to the latest version) > 2. Open Settings > DuckDuckGo for Desktop (in the Privacy section). This doesn’t seem to exist? Just installed on iOS.
> Download the DuckDuckGo mobile app (or update to the latest version) I must say, this is a great method of marketing. I've never been super interested in trying the DDG mobile app, but the MacOS option caught my eye. I've now downloaded the app simply to sign up for the desktop option.
Pros-
It integrates well with google things that Firefox seemingly doesn't, eg. Autofill of payment details, and still has some adblocking unlike chrome. The fire button.
Cons-
It has problems downloading most things, and the renderer blanks out when scrolling sometimes, and the the blocking isn't as comprehensive as ublock/privacy badger/decentraleyes.
Worth having as a second install I think
Extension support will be crucial for people to jump over, including me from Firefox. I use Bitwarden for password management and I'm not really interested in porting that over to Duck. Safari-like performance with extension support is essentially my endgame browser on Mac. Although it makes me uneasy that the entire browser is built on Apple's api's, it's seems like they will be at their mercy for whatever changes a…
I'm still defaulting to Brave until my extension set works seamlessly, though my Developer Console-fu might also deter a complete switch.
Will the browser, like the search engine, decide which political perspectives I should be exposed to?
Surely only the purveyors of political misinformation could disagree with this.
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I agree with OP. DuckDuckGo should remain neutral and not censor search results. That was one of their main draws that set them apart from Google.
If you agree with the OP maybe read the article that they posted? This was never a thing that DDG claimed they were for. DDG is about privacy! If we were talking about nearly any other issue, I might agree with you. But in this particular case, this is not a political issue! This is an invasion. End of story. Any "information" claiming otherwise is propaganda and does not deserve to be spread as truth.
DDG absolutely claims to give more neutral results.
https://searchengineland.com/duckduckgos-new-video-targets-g...
With their browser based on Safari and their search engine using Google’s index, DDG just feels like a rebranding exercise. It would be nice to get some real competition.
I'm using DuckDuckGo almost exclusively[1] for years now and I'm pretty happy with it. I don't see much benefit in their browser though. I think their "Privacy Grade" , which is shown very prominently in the browser UI, is more harm than help. It is much too strict and rating everything down is counter to their intention. Is a B site still OK? What about a C, or. B+? If nothing is A, this is just confusing to the use…
Exactly. I run a static site over SSL with zero trackers, analytics, etc. but I get a B+ from DDG for "unknown privacy practices."
Seems simple!
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If you agree with the OP maybe read the article that they posted? This was never a thing that DDG claimed they were for. DDG is about privacy! If we were talking about nearly any other issue, I might agree with you. But in this particular case, this is not a political issue! This is an invasion. End of story. Any "information" claiming otherwise is propaganda and does not deserve to be spread as truth.
>This was never a thing that DDG claimed they were for. DDG is about privacy! DDG absolutely claims to give more neutral results. https://searchengineland.com/duckduckgos-new-video-targets-g...
That is about Google tailoring the results for you.
DDG is doing this across the board. So everyone gets the same results as the video states.
With their browser based on Safari and their search engine using Google’s index, DDG just feels like a rebranding exercise. It would be nice to get some real competition.
On the app (the subject of this post), we are actually not forking any browser. From the bottom section on how it is built:
"DuckDuckGo for Mac does not fork Chromium (or anything else). Instead, we use the rendering engine that comes with macOS...We are building everything else from scratch. So beyond rendering, all the code is ours – written by DuckDuckGo engineers with privacy, security, and simplicity front of mind. This means we don’t have the cruft and clutter that has accumulated in browsers over the years, both in code and design, giving you a modern look and feel and a faster speed."