You may find the information you're looking for!īefore posting here, please check out our FAQ, there's a good chance that you'll find the answer to your question there. Please read our official privacy statement before posting. Since we are a privacy company and our product does not track you, we receive lots of questions about privacy. From the test, I found out that DuckDuckGo took about 4 seconds to fully load the site, while Firefox took 3.2 seconds.This subreddit is for news, updates, and discussion about all things DuckDuckGo including the DDG search engine, DDG Privacy Browser (iOS and Android), the DDG Privacy Essentials browser extension, and DDG's Tracker Radar tracking blocker. The above video shows the test with the results.īefore conducting the test, I cleared the cache and storage of both apps. To test the browser speed of both, I went to my website and counted the total time. Firefox Speed Testīrowser speed is a part of the DuckDuckGo vs. DuckDuckGo, on the other hand, being a search engine, does not offer to change the search engine. The default search engine on Firefox (on most platforms and most countries) is Google. DuckDuckGo does not offer private browsing tabs. You can enable and disable specific trackers.įirefox also offers a site permissions feature, allowing you to manage the location, camera, microphone, and other permissions.įinally, the browser separates the normal and private tabs, which is not the case with DuckDuckGo.

Custom: The custom option allows you to choose your protection.

Strict: This option brings advanced tracking protection by offering total protection from all the websites.

It protects you from social media trackers, cross-site tracking cookies, redirect trackers, and crypto miners.

Standard: The feature is enabled by default.

Regular users can’t test those, but users in the beta version can opt-in.įirefox also comes with tracking protection features.

Lastly, two features in beta mode are Email Protection and App Tracking Protection.

The browser also uses HTTP to HTTPS technology to protect you from unencrypted websites. The browser also comes with a Fire button which deletes data for all the opened tabs. This option helps you stay signed in on some websites. By default, DuckDuckGo erases cookies when you close the browser.

Secondly, it has a Fireproof Sites system, which gives you the power to keep cookies for specific websites. The first option enabled by default is Global Privacy Control (GPC) which blocks trackers. DuckDuckGo has multiple protection systems in place.

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