DuckDuckGo, which was announced just before the end of last year, has finally been officially launched The first full version of your desktop web browserwith a beta version for the Mac already available and a version for the Windows already on the way, and a user experience that emphasizes the privacy features.

Instead of returning to Chrome as a base using Safari WebKit on macOS devices and using Microsoft Edge Blink on Windows. And it’s because the company designed this browser internally, instead of splitting an open source browser like Chromium or Firefox, so does not have its own rendering engineusing a rendering engine integrated into our computer’s operating system.

Although, as we said, DuckDuckGo wanted to do it special emphasis on personal data protection functionswith options including DuckDuckGo browser integration, tracker blocking, one-click data deletion for specific sites, HTTPS site prioritization, if available, and history, bookmarks and passwords stored locally and not shared with DuckDuckGo.

On the other hand, this desktop browser also will help us manage pop-up cookies, arising in a mandatory manner after the implementation of the GDPR. And while there are third-party extensions that can help you avoid cookie pop-ups, DuckDuckGo directly automates this process. The first time you use the application, you will be asked if you want it to manage the pop-ups that appear. An option that, if left on, will use Javascript to automatically set cookie preferences for each site you visit. automatic selection of the best options to maximize our privacy.

As we expected, the browser is currently still in a slightly restricted beta. depends on writing on the waiting list gain access.