has provided an early peek at its upcoming desktop app. In that recaps the corporate’s 12 months, CEO Gabriel Weinberg appeared towards the long run as properly. He mentioned DuckDuckGo will deliver the privateness protections the corporate is thought for to the app. You can count on the pace and ease of its cellular app too.

“Robust privacy protection” might be enabled by default for search, looking, e mail and extra. Weinberg mentioned the app is not a “privacy browser” per se, however moderately “an everyday browsing app that respects your privacy.”

As it did on cellular, DuckDuckGo is constructing the app utilizing OS-provided rendering engines as an alternative of basing it on initiatives like Chromium. According to Weinberg, that helped the event group to “strip away a lot of the unnecessary cruft and clutter that’s accumulated over the years in major browsers.”

Along with a streamlined interface and the Fire Button (which closes all tabs and wipes looking information in a single faucet), the DuckDuckGo desktop is cleaner and rather more personal than Chrome, Weinberg mentioned. He additionally claimed it is “significantly faster” than Google’s browser, primarily based on early checks — here is hoping it is much less of a reminiscence hog than Chrome too. DuckDuckGo did not reveal when it plans to launch the desktop app.

Weinberg notes that, during the last 12 months, DuckDuckGo has bolstered its search and tracker blocking options. He mentioned DuckDuckGo’s cellular app is now essentially the most downloaded Android browser in key markets. In July, the corporate a free e mail forwarding service that removes monitoring pixels from messages.