{"id":37398,"date":"2022-10-19T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37398"},"modified":"2022-11-09T13:14:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T18:14:23","slug":"duckduckgo-browser-for-mac-public-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/19\/duckduckgo-browser-for-mac-public-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"DuckDuckGo Browser for Mac Public Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spreadprivacy.com\/duckduckgo-for-mac-open-beta\/\">DuckDuckGo<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=33246158\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/spreadprivacy.com\/duckduckgo-for-mac-open-beta\/\"><p>Enjoy browsing again with a fast, sleek browsing app that cleans up the web as you use it, thanks to DuckDuckGo&rsquo;s unique built-in privacy protections.<\/p><p>New since the closed beta: Duck Player, a YouTube player that helps protect your privacy; password management integration with Bitwarden; upgraded automatic cookie pop-up handling; instant access to built-in Email Protection; and more.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>We added a bookmarks bar, pinned tabs, and a way to view your locally stored browsing history.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>DuckDuckGo for Mac is not a &ldquo;fork&rdquo; of Chromium, or any other browser code. All the app code &#x2013; tab and bookmark management, our new tab page, our password manager, etc. &#x2013; is written by our own engineers. For rendering, it uses a public macOS API, making it super compatible with Mac devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, it&rsquo;s using <code>WKWebView<\/code> rather than embedding its own forked copy of WebKit.  I&rsquo;m happy to see this making progress, but right now the features are pretty bare bones, the interface feels more webby than Mac, and it doesn&rsquo;t support AppleScript.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/05\/duckduckgo-increases-protection-from-microsoft-trackers\/\">DuckDuckGo Increases Protection From Microsoft Trackers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/12\/review-of-orion-browser-for-mac\/\">Review of Orion Browser for Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/12\/duckduckgo-browser-for-mac-beta\/\">DuckDuckGo Browser for Mac Beta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/20\/duckduckgo-email-protection\/\">DuckDuckGo Email Protection<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"duckduckgo-browser-for-mac-public-beta-update-2022-11-02\">Update (2022-11-02): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timacfr\/status\/1582803675939893249\">Alexandre Colucci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timacfr\/status\/1582803675939893249\">\n<p>I gave a try to the new \n@DuckDuckGo\n Mac browser and I&rsquo;m quite impressed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>feels really fast (in the video Safari on the left vs DuckDuckGo on the right)<\/li>\n<li>cookie consent blocker is great but needs to support more websites <\/li><\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"duckduckgo-browser-for-mac-public-beta-update-2022-11-09\">Update (2022-11-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuckDuckGo\/status\/1582340890823385089\">DuckDuckGo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuckDuckGo\/status\/1582340890823385089\">\n<p>Calling all Mac users &#x1F4E3; our everyday browser - the privacy easy button - is out now in beta!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DuckDuckGo (via Hacker News): Enjoy browsing again with a fast, sleek browsing app that cleans up the web as you use it, thanks to DuckDuckGo&rsquo;s unique built-in privacy protections.New since the closed beta: Duck Player, a YouTube player that helps protect your privacy; password management integration with Bitwarden; upgraded automatic cookie pop-up handling; instant access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-10-19T16:01:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"f4d88b23-9070-4ac8-9658-858c51c343d7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-11-09T18:14:26Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A9NiLI5BwSsiWWIWMUcND1w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[159,1469,30,32,2077,1926,555],"class_list":["post-37398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-applescript","tag-duckduckgo","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-12","tag-wkwebview","tag-youtube"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37609,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37398\/revisions\/37609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}