Reviews for DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials by DuckDuckGo
235 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 10782222, 2 years agoThis site censors search results and is funded by a venture capitalist fund. If I could give DDG a minus rating I would. Don't trust me research it for yourself. There are a couple of search engines on Firefox that are private & not censored: Brave & Presearch.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jason DiManna, 2 years agoSwitched from Google originally and really enjoyed. Now public statements of filtering or censoring results disappoints me. Let me be the judge of what is fake news!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Screw the Narrative, 2 years agoMoving to Brave. I don't want my searches to be "prioritized" based on someone else's opinion of what's true or not. See Ya.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14896160, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13997341, 2 years agoAfter years of using it im done whit DDG... "At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation."
- Rated 1 out of 5by Free to Decide 1971, 2 years agoI've been a long-time user and supporter of DuckDuckGo - telling friends and family it's a great alternative to Scroogle's manipulation and data tracking. I created an account today just to write a review and voice my displeasure for DDG's new policy of censorship.
I am an adult with the capacity for critical thinking and judging for myself whether someone has provided sufficient evidence to support their claim. I DON'T need and DON'T want a search provider to cultivate, eliminate, or discriminate the results that show up when I am searching for something.
I can no longer in good conscience support DDG, and will start using a different search provider going forward. They lost my support the moment they decided to censor the free flow of information. Even if they reversed their decision tomorrow, it will take some work for them to earn back my trust and support. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17328013, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by romantic_pessimist, 2 years agoFirst time i review an extension, and it is because it vastly undermined my trust in it. now won't be a major problem for my day to day life, but i'm not gonna embrace and wait till something i might find interesting or useful will be censored.
I'm gonna manually manage my adblock, and privacy setting, even if it suck, i find it essential for my well being to have the most extensive type of freedom i can get - Rated 1 out of 5by Ersultan, 2 years agoПо факту собирает данные о пользователях, влияет на результаты поиска. Шлак! Разрабы пиздаболы
- Rated 1 out of 5by Erolley, 2 years agoNo point in using DDG anymore, it became the same thing as Google, use an alternative instead.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17327004, 2 years agoAI determining what i should see? Duck duck gone to the dustbin of history!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17326333, 2 years agoSold their soul to SJW politics. To the trash with you.
- Rated 1 out of 5by BJSully, 2 years agoAt least Google doesn't hide [anymore] the fact it's nothing more than a political censorship entity. DDG is toast.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13343953, 2 years agoUsed to recommend DDG to people and used it myself for years on all my devices. I have now switched to Brave everywhere. Privacy AND anti-censorship.
There is a false dichotomy that being anti-censorship means being Alex Jones 2.0. This makes it easy to dismiss people's complaints
Facebook censored a peer-reviewed articled published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ), one of the most respected medical journals. Lack of transparency for how something is branded "fake news" is worrying.
The most respected newspapers promoted the "WMD in Iraq" years ago. But I guess propaganda machine is cool when brown kids are killed instead of those bought by rich couple abroad (see news of kids from paid surrogacy stuck in Ukraine).
I am sure an underpaid intern knows better about what is disinformation and what is true. - Rated 1 out of 5by || BeeBee ||, 2 years agoDuckDuckGo used to stand for Internet privacy. You ask us "Why You Should Care" ... guess you are right as it turns out the you don't care much no more since starting to censor search results. You have just lost my confidence reveling that you have become a player in the great narrative. Shame on you guys!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Eliphaser, 2 years agoI used to really like DuckDuckGo but it joins the elite club of censoring.
The best way to fight disinformation and propaganda is to demistify it, argue it, present it and talk about it, analyse it and present the reality. This is not what DuckDuckGo seems to value. They would much rather down-rank searches from Russian media than let people forge their own opinions on the reality at hand.
A search engine taking party in a conflict is not just a political issue, but a poor sign that the search aspect only responds to what the owners of the engine want you to easily find rather than to leave you with an unfiltered list of what you are really looking for.
Currently, DuckDuckGo's search effectiveness on controversial topics now prove to be similar to that of Google's, with a little bit more privacy powdered onto it. Not exactly worth using anymore, and I certainly don't think they are trustworthy for quality searches if they do things like that. - Rated 1 out of 5by Elofson, 2 years agoDuckDuckGo is now censoring search content that it considers "misinformation".
Use Brave Search instead. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17015801, 2 years agoI took it off on my computer and smartphone as I don't need a second Google. I don't need someone to tell me what I should look at.
- Rated 1 out of 5by ftnwo2012, 2 years agoDDG représentait un peu une alternative pour un monde librement informé. À présent, en rejetant la Russie, ils rejoignent gogol et autres dans la droite ligne des mondialistes de Davos.
Bye bye ! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17325015, 2 years agoGabriel Weinberg, CEO, decide for me what I should and shouldn't be able to find when I'm searching for things.
If I wanted to be censored I would use google.
so, I'm out. - Rated 1 out of 5by Wayyllon, 2 years agoRecently showed that they have a political bias in the Ukraine Russia conflict. I support Ukraine; however the entire idea behind their search engine is that they're unbiased.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17324263, 2 years agoBIG TECH FAR LEFT CONTROLLED- NOT TO BE TRUSTED ANYMORE, DELETE
- Rated 1 out of 5by MagiKFred, 2 years agoYou must think humans are dumb for not being able to discern from disinformation. But censoring it for a PR stunt on twitter is just ridiculous. I bet $50 only 1/100 Duck Duck Go users support this decision. It doesn't make much sense, unless you actively want to destroy your integrity and shill for twitter. This act is repulsive.