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Reviews for DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials by DuckDuckGo

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  • by Travseilon, pirms 3 mēnešiem
  • by Firefox user 17453875, pirms 3 mēnešiem
  • by Firefox user 17155439, pirms 4 mēnešiem
    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 pirms 4 mēnešiem
    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, pirms 4 mēnešiem
    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 pirms 4 mēnešiem
    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, pirms 4 mēnešiem
    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, pirms 4 mēnešiem
    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, pirms 4 mēnešiem
    Blocks StartPage when extension is on. Also, naughtily, changes search back to google when uninstalled. Pls. don't do that, DuckDuckGo!
  • by Nancy, pirms 4 mēnešiem
  • by Bobby T, pirms 4 mēnešiem
  • by rado84, pirms 4 mēnešiem
    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, pirms 4 mēnešiem
    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?
  • by Zed, pirms 4 mēnešiem
  • by taotieren, pirms 4 mēnešiem
  • by privacy-xplorer, pirms 4 mēnešiem
    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
  • by Kiran Sagar, pirms 4 mēnešiem
  • by Edward Vaughn, pirms 4 mēnešiem
  • by Dax the Duck, sorta, pirms 4 mēnešiem
    DDG all the way! Also bangs are INSANE!!! also this thing has blockes 127 trackers on ONE website for me, like wth?
  • by Baz, pirms 4 mēnešiem
    Best privacy adds-on
  • by sj.mitchell, pirms 4 mēnešiem
  • by Firefox user 13469418, pirms 4 mēnešiem
  • by Pearl O, pirms 5 mēnešiem
  • by Firefox user 16688726, pirms 5 mēnešiem
  • by ㅤㅤ, pirms 5 mēnešiem
    The Email Protection's "Autofill" feature interfieres with the fields "TO", "CC" and "BCC" of the ProtonMail webmail interface by pasting a DDG private email adress in all these fields and making hard to manage them.

    It would be a great idea to add an option to disable the "Autofill" feature in specific websites or [sub]domains.
  • by mariosteve, pirms 5 mēnešiem
  • by Firefox user 12485865, pirms 5 mēnešiem