And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is… interesting to say the least.

  • Arthur BesseAEnglish
    10•10 months ago

    Well I hear Duckduckgo’s new browser something new finally instead of based off an existing browser

    Where did you hear that? According to wikipedia DuckDuckGo’s browser uses the operating system’s rendering engine on mobile (chromium’s on android, and safari’s on ios), and the mac version also uses webkit (safari’s engine).

    The windows version doesn’t appear to even be open source but I would be surprised if it isn’t also using chromium’s rendering engine.

    • TeoTwawkiEnglish
      1•10 months ago

      On windows, theres been more than one, but they said their knew one is all new code by thier own engineers instead of yet another chromium descendant, and I hope to god thats actually true.

      • Arthur BesseAEnglish
        1•10 months ago

        they said their knew one is all new code by thier own engineers

        where did they say that?

        • TeoTwawkiEnglish
          2•10 months ago

          Having trouble finding it now, but this is thier own post over on reddit (4 months old now)

          How is it made? DuckDuckGo for Windows was built from the ground up by DuckDuckGo engineers with privacy, security, and simplicity front of mind. We are not forking Chromium (or anything else) and for web page rendering it calls the underlying operating system rendering API (in this case a Windows WebView2 call that utilizes the Blink rendering engine underneath). While this is the approach we’re taking now, that might change depending on the feedback we get from this round of testing. If there are changes to future versions, we will make that clear.

          If you’ve signed up and are waiting for an invite, we appreciate your patience! We’re letting folks in gradually so that we can implement feedback as we go.

          Love from the DuckDuckGo team 🦆

          I’m actually less confident having read this…Isn’t webview2 exactly what edge and chrome do? I now regret opening my mouth.