Reviews for DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials by DuckDuckGo
2,239 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13561696, 7 years agoI'm still forming an opinion. As an idea it is great. Encryption and Anti-tracking. But how does it play with FF's own tracker-blocking capabilities? It would be nice if there was also an ad-blocking feature. Can I install an adblocker with this, if so which one?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13707739, 7 years agoBad tracking protection!
It doesn't block lots of trackers.
* Nope, no extension conflicts.
* I didn't look numbers. I took into account just what your own extension detailed as blocked. And sadly, your extension didn't catch several trackers.
* I read your extension uses something from EasyList + something from Disconnect + something from you. Well, something went wrong, and nope, your extension doesn't catch trackers and webgarbage as other extensions catch. Your extension has a poor tracking protection.Developer response
posted 7 years agoWould it be possible to reach out to us directly to better understand what is going on? You can email open at duckduckgo.
We are using the same filter lists as other extensions in addition to our own changes, and so we should be blocking similarly and are in all our tests. If you’re not seeing that it could be because you have multiple blocking extensions installed and we are not seeing those requests. In any case, would love to get to the bottom of it if you don’t mind reaching out.
We should also point out you shouldn’t look at numbers because one thing we did to be more informative is group requests into tracker networks. So, for example, if there were 50 trackers from the same network, it would only count as 1 tracker network blocked, but we block all 50 requests. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13722639, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by harogaston, 7 years agoMy new favourite search engine. I don't want to be tracked anymore.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12374383, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13616600, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by NiCkyJuLiA, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13718356, 7 years agoInformation is power. I am not a digital native, rather a digitalo immigrant, but I don't want ignorance to be my excuse for not standing up for my personal rights to privacy. DuckDuckGo have made it easy to get out of the way of the bulldozer that is google. Thanks.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13717148, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tonatiuh, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13416650, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12347413, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13061300, 7 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13681946, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by marcelo alfaro, 7 years agoi just like not to be follow around the web :) seeing the same shoes ads every time i search for something in the web is boring, tiresome and frankly shows laziness from the advertiser... the ads are poor because of the track system i think... if they want to sell us something at least take some risks with the ads... be more creative! don't you think?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13670248, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by IzNoGud78, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DOWL, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13658260, 7 years agoIt would be helpful if this plugin could be configured to not run on certain domains. For example, as a web developer/marketer, I'm often in Google Analytics, but the GA site doesn't work when this plugin is running.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the review and comment about not running on specific domains. This feature is already available by clicking the extension's icon in the browser bar, and toggling the "Site Privacy Protection" option. Perhaps it's not clear enough, however, so we'll look into how we can improve this. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13657994, 7 years agoEin sehr gutes vertrauenswuerdiges Programm. Allerdings sollte / kann die Arbeitsgechwindigkeit noch gesteigert werden.