• burnedoutfordfiesta@lemmy.world
    20·
    1 year ago

    It’s fine. Websites break on it less often than I would have expected and the “nuke your cookies and history" button is a fun feature. I’ve mostly moved to Firefox, though, just to get away from Chromium (although I realize the irony in that; my fingerprint is almost assuredly far more unique than if I stuck to Chromium).

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I like the browser. It never seems to break anything. My father uses it also. However, I must use Firefox with its built in Enhanced Tracking Protection in strict mode specifically to prevent Chrome domination.

  • Catsrules
    51·
    1 year ago

    Never heard of it, what is it based on?

    • kworpy@lemm.eeEnglish
      210·
      1 year ago

      It’s an internet privacy company that offers a variety of products to help protect your privacy, most notably a browser extension and it’s own private search engine.

      • Catsrules
        3·
        1 year ago

        No not the company, the browser lol.

        Like is ia a chromium based browser or Firefox or something else?

        • kworpy@lemm.eeEnglish
          22·
          1 year ago

          Based on the search results, it appears that the DuckDuckGo browser does not use Chromium. Instead, it uses Apple’s WebKit rendering system , which is the same rendering engine used by Apple’s Safari browser. DuckDuckGo has chosen to use WebKit instead of Chromium or Blink, the fork of WebKit used by Chromium-based browsers.

          -ChatGPT

  • shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    It is a good browser, but wouldnt get my location on degoogled lineage so i went to fennec. I submitted an issue to the ddg github about it and the response (after 3 months) was to brush me off because it worked fine with play services. Not encouraging for sure.

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
    2·
    1 year ago

    It’s the only browser I use. I like it because the only links I open are if I click a news article or something on social, and it auto-nukes history and cookies.

  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
    21·
    1 year ago

    I like it. I tend to use it more than Firefox recently. It seems to load most sites faster.
    Not having a bunch of tabs remain open all the time is great. FF refuses to close them no matter what setting I use, and I always forget about them so it’ll have like ten tabs in the background for no reason.
    I also dgaf about what I searched for or where I went previously, so not having a history is great.

    FF is mainly my YouTube app.