Here's a tl;dr for you on "why do I need a new browser" from the post:
* Better web tracking protections: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/we.... This includes a bunch of protections not offered by most other browsers and extensions by default (e.g., embedded facebook content protection), or more robust versions of them (e.g., our HTTPS everywhere list is orders of magnitude bigger). More generally our web tracking protections are based on our open source crawler vs. community feedback, and we believe this approach is ultimately better and leads us to study and block new tracking techniques faster.
* New feature: Duck Player, a YouTube player that helps protect your privacy (no targeted ads, no influencing your recommendations, etc.)
* New feature: automatic cookie consent pop-up manager, which not only hides these but also makes sure to select the most private options before doing so (if you don't do that you can be subject to more tracking).
* New feature: Fire Button, one click data clearing for tabs, windows, sites, or everything.
* A focus on Privacy, simplified, which means working continuously on not breaking websites while still protecting you as much as we can, and keeping the interface clean and sleek.
Duck player seems interesting to me. I use firefox containers to browse youtube and one of my pet peeves with safari is not being able to keep my google and youtube cookies separately.
As a geek, I pride myself in using all the browsers. I have the free time to try them out and each one has its own unique selling point and feature set, which I leverage. Firefox and Brave for privacy. Microsoft Edge for normie stuff. Chrome for using Google services. Tor Browser Bundle for dodging the NSA. Opera & Vivaldi, because they're super customizable and quirky. Then various apps on my phone like Vanadium, Brave, DuckDuckGo, vanilla Safari, Firefox Focus, etc
yegg|3 years ago
* Better web tracking protections: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/we.... This includes a bunch of protections not offered by most other browsers and extensions by default (e.g., embedded facebook content protection), or more robust versions of them (e.g., our HTTPS everywhere list is orders of magnitude bigger). More generally our web tracking protections are based on our open source crawler vs. community feedback, and we believe this approach is ultimately better and leads us to study and block new tracking techniques faster.
* New feature: Duck Player, a YouTube player that helps protect your privacy (no targeted ads, no influencing your recommendations, etc.)
* New feature: automatic cookie consent pop-up manager, which not only hides these but also makes sure to select the most private options before doing so (if you don't do that you can be subject to more tracking).
* New feature: Fire Button, one click data clearing for tabs, windows, sites, or everything.
* Our Email Protection integrated natively: https://spreadprivacy.com/protect-your-inbox-with-duckduckgo....
* A focus on Privacy, simplified, which means working continuously on not breaking websites while still protecting you as much as we can, and keeping the interface clean and sleek.
neither_color|3 years ago
Duck player seems interesting to me. I use firefox containers to browse youtube and one of my pet peeves with safari is not being able to keep my google and youtube cookies separately.
WallyFunk|3 years ago
reaperducer|3 years ago