At the moment, it fails EFF’s “Cover Your Track” test, which tells you whether it’s possible for sites to uniquely identify you based on your computer’s properties like display size and operating system version. If DuckDuckGo claims to go for the most private browser title, it will also need to improve its anti-fingerprinting mechanisms. Even with plenty of active tabs and windows, the DuckDuckGo browser refuses to slow down, but I wonder how the subsequent updates will affect that performance. Since it is currently without so many standard browser abilities and it blocks trackers before sites can even activate them, coupled with its reliance on macOS’s native rendering engine, it is strikingly quick at loading web pages and consumes less data as well as memory. But that will undoubtedly take months, and right now, you’re left with either relying on desktop clients or copying and pasting credentials from another browser. As opposed to letting users access a large marketplace of add-ons it can’t always keep in check, DuckDuckGo will offer in-house alternatives to popular categories, such as password managers, VPNs, and others. While DuckDuckGo says it plans to eventually bring many of these features to its desktop browser, it’s taking a more cautious (and ambitious) stand for third-party extensions. There’s no bookmarks bar, dedicated history page, tab grouping and pinning, extension support, cross-platform sync, customization, and much more. It lacks a laundry list of features everyone expects from any web browser. Though these privacy tools are nice to have by default, the rest of the DuckDuckGo browser feels like what it is right now: a beta preview.
“Incognito mode betrays users' expectations of privacy, and consequently, we believe it does more harm than good,” Beah Burger-Lenehan, Product Director at DuckDuckGo, told Laptop Mag. Incognito mode only pauses the browser from logging your browsing history and doesn’t actually prevent anyone from snooping on you, so DuckDuckGo is doing away with it entirely and instead expects users to simply hit the fire icon when they want a session to disappear from their browsing data. With its own desktop browser, DuckDuckGo also aims to put a common online misconception to bed once and for all: the “private” incognito mode fallacy.
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