DuckDuckGo Private Browser 17+

Privacy, simplified‪.‬

DuckDuckGo, Inc.

    • 4.5 • 11 Ratings
    • Free

Description

DuckDuckGo for Mac is a free browsing app that gives you comprehensive online privacy protection. With one download, you get a private everyday Internet browser that offers seamless protection while you search and browse - plus access to free tracking protection for your email inbox, secure password management, new beta features, and more.

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS
• Search Privately by Default - DuckDuckGo Private Search comes built in, so you can easily search the web without being tracked.

• Block Most Trackers Before They Load - Stay secure with our cutting-edge tracker-blocking technology. 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection goes above and beyond what most popular web browsers offer by default, stopping most hidden tracking scripts from loading and collecting your personal data.

• Enable Built-in Email Protection (Beta) – Get free Duck Addresses (@duck.com) to block most email trackers – which we’ve caught in 85% of emails – and hide your existing email address when signing up for things online, all without switching email providers.

• Clean Up YouTube with Duck Player - Watch YouTube videos more privately in Duck Player. We’ll protect you from targeted ads and cookies with a distraction-free interface that incorporates YouTube’s strictest privacy settings for embedded video.

• Automatically Enforce Encryption - Force many sites you visit to automatically use an encrypted (HTTPS) connection, which helps shield your data from Wi-Fi snoopers and network onlookers like your Internet provider.

• Escape Fingerprinting – Make it harder for companies to create a unique identifier for you by blocking their attempts to combine specific information about your web browser and device settings.

• Import Bookmarks and Passwords – Using another browser or password manager to store passwords? It’s quick and easy to bring all your login info to DuckDuckGo’s secure password manager. Bookmarks, too!

• We feature many protections not available on most Internet browsers (even in incognito mode), including protection from link tracking, Google AMP tracking, and more.

EVERYDAY PRIVACY CONTROLS
• Hit Fire Button, Burn Data - Clear your tabs and browsing data fast with our Fire Button.

• Banish Cookie Pop-Ups – When we detect cookie consent pop-ups on sites you visit, we’ll work in the background to automatically set your preferences, minimizing cookies and maximizing privacy -- then close the pop-ups.

• Signal Your Privacy Preference with Global Privacy Control (GPC) - Built into our app, GPC intends to help you express your opt-out rights automatically by telling websites not to sell or share your personal information. Whether it can be used to enforce your legal rights (for example, current or future CCPA, GDPR requirements) depends on the laws in your jurisdiction.

Note about our 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection following DuckDuckGo ad clicks: Our 3rd-Party Tracker Protection goes above and beyond what you get in most popular browsers by default, but we’re constantly working to make it more comprehensive. Currently, if an advertiser wants to detect conversions on their own website for our private DuckDuckGo search ads, our 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection will not stop bat.bing.com requests from loading on the advertiser’s website following DuckDuckGo ad clicks, but those requests are stopped in all other contexts. This is because DuckDuckGo private search advertising is in partnership with Microsoft. As part of that partnership, viewing ads on DuckDuckGo is anonymous and Microsoft has committed to not profile our users’ ad clicks.

Read more about this and our free Tracking Protections at https://help.duckduckgo.com/privacy/web-tracking-protections

You don't need to wait to take back your privacy. Join the millions of people using DuckDuckGo and protect many of your everyday online activities with one app. It's privacy, simplified.

Privacy Policy: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy/

What’s New

Version 1.80.0

• We made some improvements to the file download experience, including display of real-time progress in the Downloads panel. If you'd like the browser to automatically open the Downloads panel whenever a download completes, you can make that happen in Settings > Downloads.
• Downloads will no longer restart when restarting the browser or reopening their associated tabs.
• Plus, you can now use a keyboard shortcut (Option + Return) to initiate downloads from the address bar.
• If you've been wanting to delete all your saved passwords at once — now you can.
• We also fixed a bug that was unhelpfully deleting what you typed into the address bar.
• The Autofill dialog, where you manage your autofill items such as passwords, now remains open when you click outside the browser window. This allows you to easily copy/paste data to/from the Autofill dialog.
• We fixed some issues relating to importing data from other browsers.

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Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5
11 Ratings

11 Ratings

Agent479 ,

Font colour width weight

It’s a amazing experience using a duck duck go but I think there is some adjustment can be made like when when we searched something the information which gets displayed there font isn’t so attractive it’s a little bit small in size and transparent .
I love the history clean up button which is shape of fire and animation which get displayed during it , I simply love it’s simple design everything is compact .
It will be amazing if duck duck go can warn us if site is not secure like small pop up or searched box colours get changed to some other colour .In fact you can changed the search box colour as per there category of privacy .

Sachink510 ,

Recommend for iPad users

The browser I wanted, but I tried many of them, and all of them have some problems. The most popular browser, Chrome, also lacks some features and crashes while using websites in desktop view. Additionally, the built-in browser Safari stores a lot of junk data that we can't erase to free up device space. DuckDuckGo has a button to press to forget about history and junk data, which is really awesome. I haven't faced any kind of issue with this browser till now

bavid1311 ,

I need option to change default browser

All over this browser isn't bad. Tbh it is better than safari and Firefox in terms of UX. i prefer google over duckduckgo because googles recommends or indexes better sites than duckduckgo in india and gives all over bettee search results thats why i prefer google. I even started using duckduckgo browser as my default but had to change back as I couldn’t change the default browser. So my msg to developers is either provide better results in your search engine or give me the option to change my default browser in app and if the option is available kindly make it easier to find

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App Privacy

The developer, DuckDuckGo, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

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