New Delhi: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has announced it is working towards introducing a desktop browser that will focus on avoiding being tracked through users' entire web experience. According to company CEO Gabriel Weinberg, the upcoming privacy-focused browser for desktop will redefine user expectations of everyday online privacy.
"We believe online privacy should be simple and accessible to everyone. That’s why we spent 2021 strengthening our all-in-one privacy solution and helping people take back their privacy with one easy download," the company CEO said in a statement.
Earlier, the company had announced several privacy features with one of them being the beta release of Email Protection, the company's free email forwarding service that removes trackers in email and protects the privacy of user's personal email address without asking to change email providers.
In November, DuckDuckGo had released App Tracking Protection beta, a new feature in its Android app that blocks third-party trackers such as Google and Facebook hiding in other apps. According to the company, users who tried out the new feature were surprised by how much tracking normally happens on their devices.
The privacy-focused search engine also made a number of improvements to its search results this year: If you tried our search engine a few years ago, but could only go part-time then, you should really give us another shot in 2022. We revamped our search results page to give it a more simple and modern design, and continued to refine and improve our local, maps, and directions results.
"Some other improvements we made include new translations instant answer, revamped definitions and weather answers, custom date range filtering, more filters on images, and improvements to advanced search. You can expect even more search improvements in the coming year," Weinberg added.