Just figured this might be some welcome news to shout out from the crow’s nest. Haven’t tried it yet myself, so would love some feedback, me hearties!
Right now using brave and presearch.
This browser’s installer has a damn huge size of ~760 MB. Usually browser installers is only <200 MB… What the heck does it actually contain?
While the browser on Desktop is a neat idea, it’s not for me. I do use the mobile app alongside Firefox and Fennec though.
I’ll happily carry on using DDG search on both platforms, since I’m not giving Google unnecessary details about my online habits… and oh yes, the dark mode.
Is it yet another chrome engine client?
It’s even funnier when I need to use webcord to use Discord inside chromium to get screen sharing working on Wayland on Linux -.-
Does webcord support screenshare with audio? I tried it myself and it didn’t work, I’ve been using discord-screenaudio.
They’re using whatever’s built into the OS, because they don’t want to be just another Chromium fork
EDIT - to clarify: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/duckduckgo-offers-its-privacy-centered-browser-in-a-windows-open-beta/
Like its Mac browser, DuckDuckGo (DDG) uses “the underlying operating system rendering API” rather than its own forked browser code. That’s “a Windows WebView2 call that utilizes the Blink rendering engine underneath,” according to DuckDuckGo’s blog post. Fittingly, the browser reports itself as Microsoft Edge at most header-scanning sites.
If they are wanting to be privacy focused, why use Chromium? It’s a data hover extraordinaire.
They’re using whatever’s built into the OS
looks at Edge
Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but isn’t that just more Chromium?
You’re not misunderstanding at all, and you’re exactly right:
Like its Mac browser, DuckDuckGo (DDG) uses “the underlying operating system rendering API” rather than its own forked browser code. That’s “a Windows WebView2 call that utilizes the Blink rendering engine underneath,” according to DuckDuckGo’s blog post. Fittingly, the browser reports itself as Microsoft Edge at most header-scanning sites.
