Re: DuckDuckGo Browser Info?

On 6/18/2024 6:44 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Anyone ever use the DuckDuckGo browser they're advertising on their
> site?
> 

    As others have said, most browsers misbehave, but you
don't have to let them take over. The DDG browser seems like
a good idea, but it's built on Chrome, which is monstrously
bloated, poorly designed, and packed with Google spyware.
Have DDG removed all the spyware? Maybe. Then the DDG browser
was caught sharing data with MS because they use Bing for
search.

   I think DDG has just tried to do too much without good
planning. There are really only 2 browsers today: The
versions of Chromium and the versions of Firefox. People
make little modifications and claim tto have re-invented
the wheel. I think you're better off just using Firefox,
going through the various settings, and installing extensions
like NoScript.

   I have UnGoogled Chrome on a data partition. I keep it around
for testing webpages and emergencies where FF won't work.
But it's almost 300 MB and I don't really want to use it, so I just
keep the portable version stored away.