
Our goal has always been to provide the most privacy we can in one download, by default without any complicated settings. This blog post we published gets into the real benefits users enjoy from this approach, like faster load times (46% average decrease) and less data transferred (34% average decrease). Because we're doing this where we can, users are still getting significantly more privacy protection with DuckDuckGo than they would using Safari, Firefox and other browsers. "What we're talking about here is an above-and-beyond protection that most browsers don't even attempt to do - that is, blocking third-party tracking scripts before they load on 3rd party websites.

When most other browsers on the market talk about tracking protection, they are usually referring to 3rd-party cookie protection and fingerprinting protection, and our browsers for iOS, Android, and our new Mac beta, impose these restrictions on third-party tracking scripts, including those from Microsoft. When you first use the DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser, the app will walk.

"We have always been extremely careful to never promise anonymity when browsing, because that frankly isn’t possible given how quickly trackers change how they work to evade protections and the tools we currently offer. DuckDuckGo is different because it doesn't store your browsing data at all, and it blocks trackers while you're browsing. Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo (quoted on ):
