DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing

Re:DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while ... by Nelkins on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:12AM (#16214152)

What is the advantage of this over Firefox Focus? And is the Privacy Essentials extension available for Firefox for Android? Trying to understand why I should use the DDG app over either of those two, since the DDG app seems like it is just a browser without tab functionality.

Also, not really related, but does anybody know how to make the home screen search bar on Nexus/Pixel phones use DDG instead of Google?

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Re:DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while ... by yegg on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:37AM (#16214345)

Tab functionality should be coming shortly, along with other standard browser functionality -- feel free to influence the roadmap with more suggestions :).

It is not available yet for Firefox for Android, though we would like to make it so shortly.

Our app additionally includes a few things:

--Upgraded encryption, in that if we can determine a site works on an encrypted version, we will also send you there automatically.

--Privacy grading, in that we show you at a glance how protected you are, which you can tap to dig into the details. We have more to do, though we've spent a long time trying to make this UX intuitive and informative, including an A-F grading scheme, grouping trackers by networks, and showing you over time who we caught trying to track you.

--Special attention given to blocking while at the same time not breaking the Web.

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Re:DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while ... by minkiu on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:50PM (#16215539)

Hi, thanks for all you guys do at DDG.

I was wondering if the app will get the "Open Link in Browser" option?

I tend to search with DDG and when I find what I want, open it in FF and keep it there. (I noticed the Bookmark bit).

Cheers!

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Re:DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while ... by yegg on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @05:21PM (#16218381)

Thanks for the suggestion -- duly noted.

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