YACF: Yet Another Chromium Fork
It’s not a fork at all though. On macOS they use Webkit, and on Windows they use Blink.
For web page rendering, the browser uses the underlying operating system rendering API. (In this case, it’s a Windows WebView2 call that utilizes the Blink rendering engine underneath.)
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Blink is part of the chromium project and it was forked from the Webkit codebase
YACF?
Yet Another Chromium forK
TY!
Firefox FTW here.
A lot of people saying this is a Chromium fork, but According to their blog, that’s not fully the case.
What’s under the hood
DuckDuckGo for Windows was built with your privacy, security, and ease of use in mind. It’s not a “fork” of any other browser code; all the code, from tab and bookmark management to our new tab page to our password manager, is written by our own engineers. For web page rendering, the browser uses the underlying operating system rendering API. (In this case, it’s a Windows WebView2 call that utilizes the Blink rendering engine underneath.)
So it uses Window’s default web renderer. It just happens that the default renderer for windows is the same as Chromium’s renderer. In this way it does mean that it has a lot of the same problems as Chromium forks, but the browser itself isn’t a chromium fork. (This is also why the macOS version uses Webkit and not Blink.)
I’d like to see if this makes an impact to the file size of the application since they don’t have to bundle all of Blink with the browser.
So would the “best” browser be Firefox? Because I hear Brave is good as well but isn’t Brave a chromium skin-esque browser?
they’ll have to wrench firefox from my cold, dead hands
Sadly it’ll die on its own likely due to mozilla mismanagement. The real question I have is how long will the FF forks survive without mozilla?
Tldr what’s going on?
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Apparently it doesn’t block ads, so no thanks.
Isn’t that like step one for a privacy focused browser?
i just tried it, they have some baking that needs to be done before you make this your default browser.
right now almost all JS is blocked OOB.
edit: nm, it wasn’t JS blocking but the tab crashing.
I like DuckDuckGo, but as others have said it’s a shame it’s using Chromium. I’d probably recommend this to someone non technical as an all in one privacy focussed browser, but it’s not for me.
I really don’t get duckduckgo. I use firefox and all for privacy and cause it’s better, but I’ve found duckduckgo to be quite inferior to google’s search. Is there some nuances I just don’t understand about duckduckgo?
Everything you do with Google Search is tied back to you as an individual, stored, and analyzed. They know what you searched for, how that fit into your search history, how long you looked at various parts of the results, which ones you clicked on, and what you did after that. That data is then used by Google to target you with very specific advertising. It is also sold to other entities that want to target you for marketing, demographics, and sometimes less wholesome things.
DuckDuckGo does not retain any information about your searches.
Google is definitely a better search engine, but 19 times out of 20 I can get what I want from DuckDuckGo just as easily. And on the rare occasions when I can’t, I resort to Google. That gives Google a lot less to work with and causes me very little inconvenience. Everything involves tradeoffs, but that is not a painful one.
I get what google does, but I find the trade-off the be really convenient.
A funny creepy story I have is that I used to use a specific video to go to sleep, and apparently yt’s algorithm got so good at figuring out my sleep schedule that it would start recommending me that video when I started getting ready for bed.
recently youtube shorts started recommending me “alpha male” andrew tate videos despite me constantly ticking the “don’t recommend this channel again” posts and i guess in response spotify is now recommending me Karl Marx audiobooks
This is hilarious. I hope their code is literally something like
if (user.pref == hate("andrew tate") { user.is = "communist"; }I wouldn’t even be mad.
Chrome Reskin
Ehn. I sleep.
If you want this kind of privacy use Mullvad’s browser (based on Firefox).
Exactly my sentiments. Zero desire to use any form of chromium.
if i was making a crossplatform browser i’d use the OS’s default web renderer too.
i dont know of a single company that wants to secure their renderers outside of apple, microsoft, and google.
mozilla barely gets by with being a tiny marketshare and using the same security features provided by the OS.
interesting they went with Chromium on desktop when their Android browser uses (or at least used to use) Gecko.
And considering they’re just adding to the Chromium near-monopoly.
