DUCKDUCKGO project, developing a search engine running without tracking preferences and user movements, announced About working on its own browser for desktop systems that complement earlier Suggested Mobile Applications and browser supplement . The key feature of the new browser will be the lack of binding to separate browser engines – the program is positioned as a blockage of browser engines provided by the operating system.
It is noted that on solved tasks, a stationary browser is close to the already proposed DuckDuckGo mobile browser for Android and iOS. The user will be offered a ready-made solution that allows without additional manipulations and study technical subtleties to ensure the proper level of confidentiality and monitoring personal information. The brazier interface is planned to get rid of complications and unnecessary settings, such as incomprehensible warnings and sentences to select the protection level – the ability to protect the ability to be activated by default, and the degree of threat of personal data will be visually displayed as a privacy rating.
The default browser will block all the scripts for tracking movements and the mechanisms used by the advertising networks to define user preferences. Search queries will be sent anonymously. When accessing sites will automatically redirect to HTTPS to encrypt connections. For visited sites will be displayed Tags with information about the policy of the resource for confidentiality. As in the mobile application in a stationary browser, a “Fire” button will be available in a prominent place, which allows you to immediately delete all user-related data, including open tabs accumulated when working with sites data and visits information.
Currently, the DuckDuckGo browser is not yet ready for public testing, but according to developers, internal tests show that it is significantly ahead of the speed of operation of the usual Chrome (acceleration is achieved due to blocking the loading of unwanted content and external JavaScript code to track movements, What significantly reduces the size of the downloadable data, reduces page loading time and reduces the volume of the JavaScript code executed).
