Reviews for Qwant - Search engine & tracker blocker
Qwant - Search engine & tracker blocker by Qwant
Review by mecki78
Rated 1 out of 5
by mecki78, 7 years agoMore than 560 KB for a search plugin is a joke. This adds a lot of unnecessary functionality: A toolbar icon (who needs that?), context menu entries (anyone using that?), access to the tracking protection setting that you can also change in the normal prefs... and even with all of that, I don't see why it needs far over 500 KB, it should need less than 50 KB.
Here's how you get the same functionality as OpenSearch plugin w/o that stupid extension:
Make sure no Qwant extension is installed, customize your toolbar, make sure the search field is visible, open Qwant search in your browser, the search bar shows a little green + button on the magnifying glass, click it, it offers you to add Qwant as a search engine, select that, and you are done (all it installs is a 10 KB XML file!!!). Now you can remove the search field from your toolbar again if you don't like to have one.
PS: This is no rating of the search engine Qwant, this is just a rating for this extension! I like the search engine but I dislike a bloated extension for something as simple as a custom search.
Here's how you get the same functionality as OpenSearch plugin w/o that stupid extension:
Make sure no Qwant extension is installed, customize your toolbar, make sure the search field is visible, open Qwant search in your browser, the search bar shows a little green + button on the magnifying glass, click it, it offers you to add Qwant as a search engine, select that, and you are done (all it installs is a 10 KB XML file!!!). Now you can remove the search field from your toolbar again if you don't like to have one.
PS: This is no rating of the search engine Qwant, this is just a rating for this extension! I like the search engine but I dislike a bloated extension for something as simple as a custom search.
639 reviews
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- Rated 5 out of 5by ANTOINE CHARLES DOMINIQUE, 5 months agoContentez-vous de la perfection et restez focus sur ce que vous faites !
- Rated 2 out of 5by naitsirch, 5 months agoThis add-on blocks google tag manager and a script from googleoptimize.com. This breaks pages that rely on scripts that are loaded by gtm.
This blocking feature should be made optional! Currently I have to disable the add-on to use a contact form on a website. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14032377, 5 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18592397, 6 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by lono202, 8 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14840826, 10 months ago
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- Rated 4 out of 5by Sarelle, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16963372, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14335167, a year agoLa navigation est protégée. Je ne suis pas ennuyé par les cookies ou les traqueurs. C'est très appréciable.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Panayiotis, a year agoΗ καλύτερη μηχανή αναζήτησης και ένα πραγματικά τέλειο εργαλείο ιδιωτικότητας. Ένα μειονέκτημα μόνο οτι σαν μηχανή αναζήτησης δεν έχει το περιβάλλον στα Ελληνικά, αλλά τα αποτελέσματα είναι ΟΚ.
- Rated 4 out of 5by J. Rougeaux, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by AwJa, a year agoBEWARE! They are now anti-ad-blocking, claiming the need for revenue. They are blocking use of the search engine completely, unless ad blocking is disabled. It is insane to believe that this solution will not rely on shared meta data, now. This is what typically happens right before this sort of thing sells out to the data brokers. It was great while it lasted, but I have no doubt that QWANT will soon collect and sell our data (no matter what empty promises they make, just as they all do.) I am sad to have to go broadcast to everyone I recommended them to over the last year or so that they should drop this immediately and find another way.