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This browser falsely claims to be private but is not. It is less private and liberal than even Google is, denying you your lawful rights to settings options just to prevent you your human rights to privacy.
Please protect your children from it.
Upsettingly, since I wrote this review, Duckduckgo have been unlawfully denying me a proper, uncorrupted service.
Date of experience: July 04, 2024
I was so high on DDG, but since using it exclusively and paying for upgraded features, I find that it lacks some functionality critical to me (no option to print headers and footers, cumbersome bookmarking, etc.). Also, the @duck.com email address that removes trackers from email is not accepted by too many others, rendering it useless to me, and with the DDG VPN that I pay for, I am denied access to too many sites. DDG, would you consider a refund?
Date of experience: June 29, 2024
It might be more “private” but the search results are no better than google, more results that are not relevant, and too many results that are used goods. I was looking for brand new in the box from a real shoe retailer but all I get from the duck is bovine excrement garage sale reseller sites like poshmark and ebay.
Date of experience: July 01, 2024
Duckduckgo is Microsoft. Bill gates definitely doesn't care about your privacy.
Date of experience: July 10, 2024
I was able to search for things that other search providers hid or did not show.
Date of experience: May 08, 2024
Sorry but if I wanted my search engine to show curated news designed to make me think me a certain way I'd have just stayed with Google and not this inferior product
Date of experience: June 29, 2024
TV Ad, UK Interest but site not recall previous search as Google does. But Amnesty International UK Take Action call out Google for lack Chid protection, violations. Need full expose on both search engines to establish veracity, also on who could try hide behind Duck duck
Date of experience: April 28, 2024
DUCKDUCKGO EMAIL PROTECT IS 💩
USE THIS BROWSER IF YOU WOULD WANT ALL OF YOUR DATA TO BE ABUSED USED AND SOLD!
THIS PARASITIC FART OF A COMPANY HAS NO RESPECT. THEY CONTINUE TO KEEP AN EMAIL ADDRESS I REQUESTED TO BE DELETED 2YEARS AGO! THEY PATHETIC STALKERS WHO HAVE ALSO HACKED MY ACCOUNT AND THE REASON I KNOW THAT THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS BECAUSE UPON BELEIVING THAT THEY FOLLOWED MY REQUEST FOR ACCOUNT DELETION, I DECIDED TO CREATE ANOTHER EMAIL ACCOUNT WITH A SIMILAR EMAIL NAME:DUCKDUCKGO THEN DECIDED TO SEND THE VERY SAME SECOND TO MY EMAIL THE VERY EMAIL ADDRESS THAT I THOUGHT I HAD DELETED! UK GDPR LAW THEY DO NOT APPLY THOSE RULES AND THEY NEED TO BE FINED! THEY IGNORE EMAILS AND LITERALLY STALK YOU ONLINE WORST THAN GOOGLE! SO IF YOU, DUCKDUCKGO ARE READING THIS, WHY AM I STILL RECEIVING EMAILS FROM YOU WHEN I REQUESTED TO BE DELETED TWO YEARS AGO RECEIVED AND EMAIL ON 28TH MAY 2024.
Date of experience: May 28, 2024
I was a fan of Duck Duck Go when I began using it in 2010, and I stuck with it for 11 years, 11 months as my default. We even changed to DDG for our internal site searches on one of our websites.
In 2022, those searches began coming up blank. Doing site: searches directly on DDG would net between 10 and 55 results, when they used to produce thousands. Nothing on our end had changed.
As DDG had dropped Yandex as a partner, it was totally reliant on Bing, and as Bing had tanked during 2022, DDG followed suit.
It wasn’t just us. I fed in site:techdirt.com, a well respected tech blog, and there were no results for that in January 2023.
For our results, some 40 per cent of them were repeated from page to page.
This bug eventually was remedied (at least for our site and for Techdirt) by Bing, and therefore by DDG, but the site is a pale reflection of what it used to be. Once that trust was gone, I wasn’t going to go back to it for site searches or as my default.
I remember a CEO who was active and outspoken, and willing to help users. In 2022, when I raised the above with him, he was silent. Kind of what happens with Big Tech.
I can’t even get DDG to update a bang that they created for us as we’re no longer reliant on them—we switched to Mojeek, which has a site: search that works (and has more of our pages than Bing does). They (including their CEO) respond to user enquiries, too.
It was a good run.
Date of experience: May 05, 2024
Well,after having lots of problem with not being able to get the correct pass word when trying to sign in securely.
And it turns out that somebody nearby is using a hi frequency signal to distort the return signal ,so that the password doesnt work and causes lots of grief But there are ways around this to resolve the problem........
+ duckduck secure stops nearby tracker from being allowing to get more control .
Thats why Duckduck is so good.
Date of experience: December 20, 2023
I have done a search using DuckDuckGo looking for information on a trip on Washington DC, a couple of minutes later my wife ( she has never searched for this topic ) has received several instagram message related to the Washington trip.
How is it possible ? Now I am thinking that there is no difference between searching on Google or DuckDuckGo
Date of experience: April 24, 2024
I signed up for email protection I have lost money because the company (Smarty mobile) cant recognise this email??? so I cant activate the sim therefore have paid a months subscription and no phone and cant claim a refund until I activate the sim, I have tried changing the receiving email 3 times still cant receive any emails. What is even more worrying is the emails include personal data and I have no idea where they have gone or who has access to them. I am not only dumping the email thing but the whole DDG stuff is going I don't trust it now, and its lost me money so not happy.
Date of experience: April 03, 2024
Saw this advertised, downloaded it okay and yes you can find what you need as with Chrome. But weird stuff was going on in other areas of my PC. It was not working properly and label printing was the last straw. Instead of printing four 6" x 4" labels per A4 it allowed only one label in the centre of the paper. I tried all ways to correct this, the only solution was to ditch DDG and re-install Chrome. All is back to normal now so DDG is not for me.
Date of experience: April 19, 2024
I downloaded this app as I think this is a great idea but even as someone who is not tech savvy thought I'd stepped back about 20 years seemed to make everything clunky and slow, had to revert to my usual browser in frustration in the end. Nice idea with terrible execution- sorry.
Date of experience: March 05, 2024
Just as bad as google, message after message popping up. Time to uninstall. And why have i to log in with Google or Facebook etc when it clearly says by submitting review its your own experience, just as bad
Date of experience: April 09, 2024
Temu head of every search,no matter how inappropriate? How can this search engine be considered safe when you search Krakow and Auschwitz and Temu is the first thing that comes up?? It's obvious from that alone that Temu is a massive safety problem.
Date of experience: April 12, 2024
I use this on android and it's decent. I find if I use google to search something then I'll be bombarded with ads related to that search term for the next few days, ads which are never really relevant to me and just a way for google to make money out of my personal info. DuckDuckGo feels more secure, does what it says on the tin, its just a search engine that doesn't want to incessantly sell stuff to me.
Date of experience: August 17, 2023
Conservative news sites NEVER show up in the first several pages of search results. Even when you ask for more results! This is not a coincidence. It is statistically impossible that it's random. It is on purpose and it is blatant suppression of news to the American people. It is illegal and contemptable. You should be held accountable as it is a form of treason! You are manipulating search engine results based on a political ideology.
Date of experience: March 11, 2024
Duck duck go does not use cookies, track or store data. I had spent ages trying to protect my data and stop websites and apps tracking me.its deliberately made different for huge companies financial gain .this Web browser made it loads easier by blocking apps and websites tracking and harvesting data. Very simple to use via the app and means I can use websites etc and protect my data without having to forgot using the net.very ethical. Also improved my understanding of this industry making easier to further protect myself. About time manufacturers made it default browser.
Date of experience: May 25, 2022
Duck Duck Go has got to be at least 1000 times better than my former favorite Google Chrome. I'm definitely going to have all my family switch also once they here about it and how well it works. I feel so much more comfortable using it where as with Chrome or Firefox or any other I was always wondering who is gathering my info personal or not.
Date of experience: November 04, 2021
