Even reflected with DuckDuckGo’s statistics, the search engine currently sees an average of more than 100 million search queries a day, compared to the 16 million search queries total for the entirety of 2010. “It's an everyday browsing app that respects your privacy because there's never a bad time to stop companies from spying on your search and browsing history,” Weinberg said in the blog post.ĭuckDuckGo’s announcement comes at a time when people are becoming far more concerned with privacy and how their personal data is being circulated on the Internet amongst Big Tech companies.

Weinberg said in his post that the desktop browser is going to be similar to DuckDuckGo’s mobile offering with “no complicated settings, no misleading warnings, no ‘levels’ of privacy protection.” Weinberg also said that it won’t be a “privacy browser” but a “privacy app” maybe in a hint that it doesn’t want to get pigeon-holed as an alternative web browser like Brave or Epic. DuckDuckGo’s founder and CEO Gabriel Weinburg detailed in a year-in-review blog post that the company is working on a privacy browser that’s currently in closed beta. From its humble beginnings as a niche search engine that prioritized privacy, DuckDuckGo is looking to expand its horizons into web browsers.

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