Reviews for DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials by DuckDuckGo
Review by Firefox user 13343953
Rated 1 out of 5
Used 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.
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.
1.685 reviews
- by Kyle, duela 15 orduRated 4 out of 5
- by Firefox user 17457944, duela 2 egunRated 1 out of 5DuckDuckGo.com recently stopped redirecting my browser to a JavaScript-free page when searching with NoScript enabled. I have been having a difficult time finding a solution for this problem and downloaded this addon as an attempt to fix it.
I am leaving a 1/5 star rating because this addon does not alter the default search behavior in any way nor does it allow redirecting of searches to the JavaScript-free page of https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/ .
I had to go to https://mycroftproject.com/ to find clear instructions on achieving this. - by Rhonda, duela 6 egunRated 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 igorlogius, duela 8 egunRated 1 out of 5
- by Firefox user 17424381, duela 8 egunRated 5 out of 5
- by Shah, duela 9 egunRated 1 out of 5Changing my browser default search engine without asking? NO THANKS, HARD PASS.
- by Firefox user 15151704, duela 10 egunRated 1 out of 5After DuckDuckGo has also sold itself and filters content, as well as forwards user behavior, it's just scrap. You can also stay with Google, they have the better search algorithms.
Don't get confused with the statements that they won't do it. After all, their payment also depends on users using the site. The fact is they have been caught and are no longer trustworthy. The recension you wrote for yourself doesn't negate that either. Do you think we are stupid?!Developer response
posted duela 7 egunNeither of these claims are true. We don't censor news and, unless legally prohibited, you should find all media outlets in our results. Let us know if you're seeing differently. On our privacy protections, we don't track you, there are no 3rd-party trackers in our app, and we do restrict 3rd-party Microsoft scripts on sites you visit. Please see the explanation from our founder/CEO here: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/uxiah9/comment/i9xxjsn/?context=3 - by Mr Thor, duela 10 egunRated 4 out of 5
- by Travseilon, duela 11 egunRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 17453875, duela 12 egunRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 17155439, duela 14 egunRated 1 out of 5I'm also convinced they're allowing Microsoft to track people. I found out that for now UltraBlock is a good alternative. It also blocks trackers and tries to block ads on top of that.
Developer response
posted duela 14 egunWe are not. We don't track you, there are no 3rd-party trackers in our app, and we restrict 3rd-party Microsoft scripts on sites you visit. More here: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/uxiah9/duckduckgo_caught_giving_microsoft_permission_for/i9xxjsn/?context=3 - by Mr.Pikachu The Madman, duela 16 egunRated 1 out of 5Wow.
Never in a million years did I think a organization could break my trust this badly.
Unbelievable.
Their contractual obligations to Microsoft should have been upfront.
Also, note the developer responses in these reviews! They're lying through their teeth!
Use something else like Brave Search.Developer response
posted duela 14 egunHi Mr.Pikachu. We're not sure if you've read the detailed summary that our founder/CEO wrote on reddit a few weeks ago but you can find it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/uxiah9/duckduckgo_caught_giving_microsoft_permission_for/i9xxjsn/?context=3
The stories going around are very misleading and hopefully that link above will provide more context. - by othello7, duela 16 egunRated 3 out of 5DDG used to be good. Nothing too much wrong with the extension as far as I can tell, but the company has made some very questionable decisions that make me want to get as far away from it as possible. Sorry old friend
- by mister_x, duela 17 egunRated 3 out of 5Can't navigate correctly in nike.com (I can't shop) even if "site privacy protection" is disabled. Must disable this addon. Same thing happens for a few other shopping sites.
- by 17391647, duela 19 egunRated 4 out of 5Blocks StartPage when extension is on. Also, naughtily, changes search back to google when uninstalled. Pls. don't do that, DuckDuckGo!
- by Nancy, duela 20 egunRated 5 out of 5
- by Bobby T, duela 22 egunRated 5 out of 5
- by rado84, duela 23 egunRated 4 out of 5Not bad for the most part but I just discovered this extension is not only throttling my upload speed to Google Drive in half but it also prevents me from uploading large files there - anything larger than 500 MB (in this particular case - 9GB file).
- by Pdee, duela hilabete batRated 1 out of 5I have tried in Google, Firefox and Bing and NONE of them will download this program. It works fine on my iPhone but not my PC---isn't that interesting?
- by Zed, duela hilabete batRated 5 out of 5
- by taotieren, duela hilabete batRated 5 out of 5
- by privacy-xplorer, duela hilabete batRated 1 out of 5Lack of transparency in operating policy, blocking trackers but allowing certain trackers anon or not without clearly informing users butchers trust and credibility.
https://thenextweb.com/news/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-sparks-backlash - by Kiran Sagar, duela hilabete batRated 5 out of 5
- by Edward Vaughn, duela hilabete batRated 5 out of 5
- by Dax the Duck, sorta, duela hilabete batRated 5 out of 5DDG all the way! Also bangs are INSANE!!! also this thing has blockes 127 trackers on ONE website for me, like wth?