DuckDuckGo — the privacy-focussed Internet search engine — has launched a desktop browser to tackle the likes of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. The new browser, which is at the moment in beta testing for macOS, is claimed to supply inbuilt privateness options, together with cookie pop-up safety and a characteristic known as Smarter Encryption that helps navigate to the encrypted (HTTPS) of internet sites. It additionally has DuckDuckGo because the default search engine. In 2018, DuckDuckGo stepped into the world of Web browsers by launching its first browser for cellular units. It is claimed to have been downloaded over 150 million occasions since launch. The identical expertise is coming to desktops by way of the brand new transfer.

Unlike an current Web browser, DuckDuckGo for Mac comes with the cookie pop-up safety that helps reject annoying cookie monitoring pop-ups from 50 p.c of the web sites at this second. The safety will develop to different websites all through beta, the corporate mentioned.

By blocking trackers, DuckDuckGo claims that it makes use of about 60 p.c much less information than Chrome. The browser can be touted to supply a quicker graphics efficiency over the Google providing.

DuckDuckGo is utilizing the identical rendering engine that’s powering Safari on macOS to make the browser most suitable with the Mac system. This primarily helps ship a quicker Web shopping expertise over Chrome and different browsers (together with Edge) which might be utilizing Chromium as their rendering engine.

The DuckDuckGo browser additionally features a Fire Button to supply one-click information clearing to customers. Additionally, there are options together with e-mail safety and inbuilt password supervisor to ease your Web shopping. The password supervisor helps importing of passwords from different browsers and browser extensions together with 1Password and LastPass. DuckDuckGo additionally has plans to convey an identical password administration on its cellular apps to let customers privately sync passwords and bookmarks between units.

The new browser additionally has an advert blocker that helps prohibit “invasive trackers” to dam advertisements by itself.

Similar to different browsers, DuckDuckGo has included common shopping options comparable to tab administration and bookmarks.

“DuckDuckGo for Mac isn’t simply a replacement for ‘Incognito mode’ (which isn’t actually private!) – instead DuckDuckGo for Mac is designed to be used as an everyday browser that truly protects your privacy,” the corporate said in a weblog submit.

DuckDuckGo for Mac is at the moment an invite-only beta. You can be part of the personal waitlist by going to Settings > DuckDuckGo for Desktop (beneath the More from DuckDuckGo part) from the DuckDuckGo cellular app.

Once you get the invite, you may be notified from the cellular app. It will embrace the hyperlink that it is advisable open by way of your Mac pc to obtain the browser.

Being a beta app, the DuckDuckGo desktop browser has some limitations at this second. It, as an illustration, would not help extensions. You might also discover some bugs at this stage, although the browser was already piloted amongst early testers earlier than releasing the beta model.

DuckDuckGo has plans to convey its Windows model later this year, although a precise timeline on that entrance is but to be introduced. The firm additionally has an curiosity in Linux, however the preliminary plan is to supply the browser on Mac and Windows units.

Moreover, DuckDuckGo is planning to open supply the Mac app as soon as it completes the beta interval to make the privacy-protected browser code accessible to third-party builders — just like the way it has supplied open-source variations of its iOS and Android apps.

Companies together with Google have been scrutinised for not providing a privacy-first shopping expertise to their customers. In such a state of affairs, DuckDuckGo’s enlargement within the browser market is probably going to assist the corporate acquire some consumer consideration and develop its enterprise.