Brave browser doubles down on privacy with DuckDuckGo search option
82Brave browser doubles down on privacy with DuckDuckGo search option.
Brave, the browser that blocks ads and trackers so you can surf the web faster and with more privacy, announced today that it has partnered with privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo to make browsing even more anonymous. DuckDuckGo now appears as one of 19 search engines available in the browser, along with Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
It may sound redundant to have an anonymous search option in a browser that already promises to keep your data private. But the company explains that, even on Brave, “search engines such as Google record what the user enters in the search bar.”
DuckDuckGo has conducted studies that revealed Google search results were still being tailored to specific users even when those users were in incognito mode. “We take that to mean that they were being tailored based on their IP address or other fingerprinting techniques using search history from before that session,” DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg explained. “Within private browsing mode, we find that many people expect their searches to not be tracked, and this new integration with Brave enables them to get the privacy they expect and deserve in that mode.”
The new option is available beginning today on Brave’s 0.19.x desktop browser release. Brave’s Android and iOS apps will include the DuckDuckGo feature in the first quarter of 2018.