DuckDuckGo for desktop will redefine user expectations of everyday online privacy, the company says. Similar to the DuckDuckGo mobile app, the desktop version will have no complicated settings, no misleading warnings, no “levels” of privacy protection – just robust privacy protection that works by default, across search, browsing, email, and more. The app is under testing right now and early tests have found it significantly faster too.

It says that the desktop app is cleaner and way more private than Google Chrome. The company wants to make DuckDuckGo an everyday browsing app. The DuckDuckGo app provides the most comprehensive online privacy protection with the push of a button. “Instead of forking Chromium or anything else, we’re building our desktop app around the OS-provided rendering engines (like on mobile), allowing us to strip away a lot of the unnecessary cruft and clutter that’s accumulated over the years in major browsers”, the blog post reads. In a blog post recently, the company announced that it is developing the DuckDuckGo app for desktop. The browsing app is currently available for mobile devices only and may come soon for desktops as well. It is known for its ‘robust privacy protection’. DuckDuckGo is one of the popular and privacy-oriented alternatives to the Google search engine.

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