DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused browser is now accessible for Home windows customers. The Home windows rollout comes 9 months after the browser launched publically for Mac customers. The Home windows browser, which is now in public beta, consists of most of the privateness protections featured within the browser’s iOS, Mac and Android variations.

Customers can import their passwords and bookmarks from one other browser or password supervisor when getting began. Though the browser doesn’t have extension help but, DuckDuckGo plans so as to add it sooner or later.

The browser consists of its personal password supervisor that may routinely keep in mind and fill in login credentials. DuckDuckGo for Home windows can now additionally recommend safe passwords for brand spanking new logins. The corporate says this performance will get extra handy as soon as it launches personal syncing throughout gadgets, which is able to permit customers to sync their bookmarks and saved passwords between completely different gadgets.

“DuckDuckGo for Home windows is supplied with our privacy-protecting different to advert blockers: the browser blocks invasive trackers earlier than they load, successfully eliminating adverts that depend on that creepy monitoring,” the corporate wrote in a weblog put up. “(As a result of so many adverts work that method, you’ll see method fewer adverts – if any in any respect.) We additionally take away the whitespace left behind by these adverts for a clear, distraction-free look with out the necessity for an out of doors advert blocker.‌‌‌‌”

As well as, the browser consists of Duck Participant, which is a built-in video participant that’s designed to guard customers from monitoring cookies and personalised adverts when watching YouTube. The corporate notes that YouTube nonetheless logs video views, so it’s not fully nameless, however not one of the movies you watch in Duck Participant contribute to your personalised suggestions or your YouTube promoting profile. You possibly can depart the characteristic always-on, or choose in on particular person movies.

DuckDuckGo says it’s working to bringing the Home windows browser on par with its Mac browser, together with enhancements like quicker startup efficiency, the power to pin tabs, HTML bookmark import, extra choices for the Hearth Button and extra privateness options.

The launch comes as DuckDuckGo not too long ago introduced the beta launch of an AI-powered summarization characteristic, referred to as DuckAssist, which may instantly reply simple search queries for customers. The characteristic attracts on pure language expertise from OpenAI and Anthropic, an AI startup based by ex-OpenAI workers, to energy the pure language summarization functionality, mixed with its personal energetic indexing of Wikipedia and different reference websites it’s utilizing to supply solutions.