Reviews for DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials by DuckDuckGo
2,234 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17424381, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Shah, 3 years agoChanging my browser default search engine without asking? NO THANKS, HARD PASS.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15151704, 3 years agoAfter 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 3 years agoNeither 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 - Rated 4 out of 5by Mr Thor, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Travseilon, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17453875, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17155439, 3 years agoI'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 3 years agoWe 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 - Rated 1 out of 5by Mr.Pikachu The Madman, 3 years agoWow.
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 3 years agoHi 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. - Rated 3 out of 5by othello7, 3 years agoDDG 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
- Rated 3 out of 5by mister_x, 3 years agoCan'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.
- Rated 4 out of 5by 17391647, 3 years agoBlocks StartPage when extension is on. Also, naughtily, changes search back to google when uninstalled. Pls. don't do that, DuckDuckGo!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nancy, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bobby T, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by rado84, 3 years agoNot 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).
- Rated 1 out of 5by Pdee, 3 years agoI 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?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Zed, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by taotieren, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by privacy-xplorer, 3 years agoLack 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 - Rated 5 out of 5by Kiran Sagar, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Edward Vaughn, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dax the Duck, sorta, 3 years agoDDG all the way! Also bangs are INSANE!!! also this thing has blockes 127 trackers on ONE website for me, like wth?
- Rated 5 out of 5by sj.mitchell, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13469418, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pearl O, 3 years ago