Duck Player is a free feature built into the DuckDuckGo browser for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android that opens YouTube videos in a distraction-free theater mode and prevents what you watch from influencing your YouTube recommendations.
How does Duck Player work?
Duck Player enforces YouTube's strictest privacy settings for embedded video, within a clean, theater-like interface. When watching with Duck Player, what you view does not contribute to your personalized YouTube recommendations or your YouTube advertising profile. Note that YouTube can still log video views, so it is not completely anonymous, but your viewing history does not contribute to your personalized recommendations or your YouTube advertising profile.
Is Duck Player different from YouTube Ad Blocking?
Yes. Duck Player is the browser’s built-in video player that lets you watch YouTube videos in a distraction-free theater mode. It also protects you from tracking cookies and personalized ads by enforcing YouTube’s strictest privacy settings for embedded video, so what you watch in Duck Player won't influence your YouTube recommendations.
YouTube Ad Blocking blocks video ads in YouTube videos so you can watch without interruption. It's the full YouTube experience, just without ads. You can use the browser with both YouTube Ad Blocking and Duck Player enabled.