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Reviews for DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials by DuckDuckGo

4,4 Stars out of 5
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Review by BJSully
by BJSully, duela 4 hilabete
At least Google doesn't hide [anymore] the fact it's nothing more than a political censorship entity. DDG is toast.
1.688 reviews
  • by OnyxZ7, duela 2 egun
  • by Marco Bassetto, duela 3 egun
  • by escapesunlimited@yahoo.com, duela 3 egun
  • by Kyle, duela 4 egun
  • by Firefox user 17457944, duela 5 egun
    DuckDuckGo.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 9 egun
    DuckDuckGo 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 11 egun
  • by Firefox user 17424381, duela 12 egun
  • by Shah, duela 13 egun
    Changing my browser default search engine without asking? NO THANKS, HARD PASS.
  • by Firefox user 15151704, duela 13 egun
    After 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 10 egun
    Neither 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 14 egun
  • by Travseilon, duela 15 egun
  • by Firefox user 17453875, duela 15 egun
  • by Firefox user 17155439, duela 18 egun
    I'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 17 egun
    We 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 19 egun
    Wow.

    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 17 egun
    Hi 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 20 egun
    DDG 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 20 egun
    Can'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 23 egun
    Blocks StartPage when extension is on. Also, naughtily, changes search back to google when uninstalled. Pls. don't do that, DuckDuckGo!
  • by Nancy, duela 23 egun
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  • by rado84, duela hilabete bat
    Not 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 bat
    I 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?
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  • by taotieren, duela hilabete bat
  • by privacy-xplorer, duela hilabete bat
    Lack 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