Reviews for DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials by DuckDuckGo
31 reviews
- by Rhonda, 10 days agoRated 2 out of 5DuckDuckGo exhausts me. It rarely brings up what I'm looking for, even when I enter detailed queries with dates or simple queries. I find myself going to other search engines to find a current answer to my query.
- by Abraham, 4 months agoRated 2 out of 5
- by CJ, 4 months agoRated 2 out of 5I've used this extension for years; It previously worked very well to integrate DDG with my browser, and filter trackers without breaking websites. However, the decision by leadership to curate search results that they deem "fake" has adversely affected my opinion of this add-on.
- by Rick, 6 months agoRated 2 out of 5Slows many websites to a painful crawl. Took me quite some time to pinpoint as I never thought DDG would be the culprit.
If you enjoy or need weather radar maps & such, this addon will render them almost useless...Developer response
posted 5 months agoHey sorry about this, do you have an example URL that we could test on your behalf? Thank you - by Firefox user 14671411, 10 months agoRated 2 out of 5Breaks logins on many sites. For example, Fedex.com gives me an error message when I try to log in. If I disable the DuckDuckGo extension and reload, I can log in with no problem. Too bad, because I love DuckDuckGo as a search engine. But this extension is apparently too aggressive for many websites to work properly.
- by DaveHove, 10 months agoRated 2 out of 5I use this extension in Firefox on my home PC with no problems. However, when I try to use it on my work PC, Firefox won't load any web pages until I disable the extension - which is very frustrating. No doubt there is something different in settings which I am unaware of which is preventing the pages from opening?
The other extensions which I use, AdBlocker Ultimate & Facebook Contaner, seem to work fine on both PC's. - by Firefox user 14740581, a year agoRated 2 out of 5
- by MKL.MH, a year agoRated 2 out of 5Je n'ai rien contre l'extension, juste contre le moteur : Premier essai, première recherche, pas foutu de comprendre les mots clés que j'ai entré "graines de niger" ne m'a sorti pour résultat que des pages "graines de nigelle" aucun autre moteur de recherche que j'ai essayé ensuite ne s'est planté, c'est le seul ! Donc je n'ai pas de temps à perdre avec ce genre d’approximation.
- by Firefox user 14816641, a year agoRated 2 out of 5Mostly works fine, but does block any and all access to banking websites. Unsure whether this is solvable, perhaps banks simply use too much tracking software or maybes it's an oversight
- by Chtiland, a year agoRated 2 out of 5DDG is quite good search engine, but this extension makes too much slow-downs on many sites.
- by Firefox user 14002902, a year agoRated 2 out of 5
- by Firefox user 12900474, 2 years agoRated 2 out of 5is not displaying some sites correctly, maybe some conflict with the ublock origin
- by Jerry Photo 69, 2 years agoRated 2 out of 5Twice now when I've had problems with sites acting weird, (like not being able to resize or even move a window) it's turned out to be DuckDuckGo. Think I'm done with it.
- by Firefox user 16377609, 2 years agoRated 2 out of 5BUG! This week it started blocking all connections to my bank's billpay service (netteller.com)... not sure why.
- by Firefox user 14344682, 2 years agoRated 2 out of 5Tried this for some time but search results in UK are poor.
- by Firefox user 11804788, 2 years agoRated 2 out of 5
- by Firefox user 16080558, 2 years agoRated 2 out of 5
- by Firefox user 15873794, 2 years agoRated 2 out of 5There are two things I don't like about DDG. I can't find a way to have same interface colours I have, in Search screen, with Google and Dark Reader together. That is just more readable and comfortable for eyes. With DDG, with or without Dark Reader, I have other tints of black, blue and purple, the 3 major colours in the seach screen.
And the other thing, is the lack of a proper integration with Google services (maps, youtube, etc). When you search for an address, it doesn't immediately show Google maps screen of it, but you have to do 3-4 clicks to have that. - by Firefox user 15984744, 2 years agoRated 2 out of 5
- by Firefox user 14055541, 2 years agoRated 2 out of 5Conflicting with Simpletabgroup addon, causing lag and freeze. After disabling DDG, Simpletabgroup works fine again.
- by Firefox user 15429385, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5
- by Firefox user 15257335, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5This extension is cool enough to use, but frankly could be a lot better. Among other things, it should ( but doesn't ):
- provide enhanced features to ddg
- add a !Bang drop-down menu
- optionally save search terms
- save filter options
- omit hits from specified domain(s)
- make ddg settings persistent across devices with extension installed 9 via ff account association or otherwise ).
( Extensively tried in Linux & Windows10 ).
But, at least it does enhance my data privacy. Viva la libre! - by Korwin, 3 years agoRated 2 out of 5При использовании дополнения не отображаются тайлы встраиваемых карт Яндекс.