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DuckDuckGo has a rating of 2.3 stars from 223 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. DuckDuckGo ranks 270th among Search sites.

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Top Positive Review

“The price of freedom, and our best hope.”

Vince C.
5/22/19

Previously I was more critical on duckduckgo but I am converting my opinion. Their search function may not be as good as google but then they are not also compiling a database of everything you do on-line and then further sharing it with other organizations (including the government) behind your back. Our best hope is that we support this tool so that they can hopefully continue to improve it and to provide a counterbalance to organizations that are not interested in maintaining real user privacy. For those interested in knowing more about this issue I recommend the following podcast: https://fs.blog/gabriel-weinberg/

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Top Critical Review

“Difficult to go to another url address.”

susan i.
9/14/24

Duckduck go is ok, However it is very difficult to remove the last website visited. Right now the url box is stuck on the last page.

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Thumbnail of user kenb550
New Jersey
1 review
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February 1st, 2021

I have to to toggle the sound every time. I'm close to deleting. I can't backup or export bookmarks. What an unthoughtful app.

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Thumbnail of user wendya118
Massachusetts
1 review
3 helpful votes
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June 3rd, 2019

No obvious intrusions no tracking no adds easy access search bar on my homepage. Search results are better than google.

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Florida
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8 helpful votes
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March 11th, 2022

It was only a matter of time before they showed their true colors. Ban anything and you're done! Duckduckgone!

Tip for consumers:
Stay away! It's another Google you can't trust.

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Thumbnail of user aidsb
Iowa
1 review
13 helpful votes
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December 11th, 2019

Don't install it constantly gives wrong results and also tracks your info not to mention you cant even save pics on a chromebook.

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New York
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August 7th, 2021

Im a youtuber and NOT EVER IN MY LIFE HAVE I SEEN A WORSE SEARCH ENGINE! My Channel is Wolfpaq7891Gaming im 18 and this search engine is NOT BOT PROOF! Google is much better. Duckduckgo claims to keep internet private. But dude this is NOT A VPN! All search engines will save your info this engine was designed no different. If you search something on here then exit and do it a few more times you will relize they save everything and blame there stuff on google. Also something that makes NO sense is Youtube is ran by Google yet DuckduckGo has their own channel! Its so funny how Youtube doesnt shut them off there site. Like DuckDuckGo IS NOT KID FRIENDLY! They Block this They Block That BLAH BLAH BLAH. Its so much easier to just watch a 30 Second ad that you dont even need to listen to! Kids want to go free! And Something so dumb about duckduckgo they claim they block all trackers. Yet i tested this on a old computer thats broken cause of this company on my old computer i went to a site on duckduckgo saying it was a mod so i was like okay and installed it. I GOT HACKED FROM THE MOD! Yet google warns you if the mod is safe or not! DuckDuckGo has Bad security and the duck looks cute! DONT FALL FOR THIS! YOUR KID IS GONNA LOOSE HIS DEVICE WITH THIS APP. Does anybody remember BonziBuddy from the 19's? DuckDuckGo is worse i dont see how DuckDuckGo hasn't experienced being sued by now. DUCKDUCKGO EVER SINCE 2008 THIS SEARCH ENGINE IS TRASH.

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Just Dont install this its fake browser its not secure its not stable dont trust it.

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Thumbnail of user barrym487
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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April 15th, 2022

Time for you to go now that you are censoring.No free speach here now. You are now as bad as google and favebook for censoring free speach. GOOD BYE

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Colorado
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May 9th, 2016

I've been using DDG with Firefox for about 2 years. I've been happy with this search engine most of the time and like that it doesn't report my usage but a number of things annoy me. ++

Most annoying: when at a site I've finished with, if I type in a new search in the upper right search slot and hit <ENTER>, I will get the results of a search WITHIN the site I want to leave. The search title for the results is: "(search item) site:(website last viewed)" Example: "edward site: whitepages.com". Here I've wanted to search for "edward" on the Web but DDG constrained the search to within my last site viewed, which here is "whitepages.com". After using (typed item) <ENTER> for decades for a search on the whole internet, this is assbackwards. If I want to do a site search, I will deliberately click the DDG site search symbol (which is a kind of bullseye) in the search slot. Oh, and this setting is NOT in the DDG settings options. I have complained to DDG without response, so I'm saying it here. ++

Next most annoying is setting a search which I know will give many hundreds of results and getting only a dozen or two. I almost feel censored (and the term typed was in no way something to censor). I often have to add more terms to get results. Usually, I want the search engine to help ME by providing too many results and letting me use these results to prompt edits or conditions to my search, as necessary. I did make sure that child protection setting in DDG was off.++

3rd most annoying thing is no hint as to how many results were returned. Sometimes it's very helpful to know that there were only 17 results, total. I might need to widen my scope. Or if there were 108,500 results, then I should narrow. DDG gives no hint to this. Am I looking at all there is when I scroll down 3 pages or a bottomless pit of results (like Facebook)? ++

I'll end there for now. I hope DuckDuckGo will improve as I do like it's look and feel MOST of the time.

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Thumbnail of user chrisa1626
GB
1 review
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March 13th, 2022

I have used duck duck go for years but their decision to join the cancel club put an end to that. USE BRAVE BROWSER AND SEARCH!

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Thumbnail of user johns2406
New York
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September 25th, 2019

Searching may be private, but the results suck. What good is it? You can't search more than 4 words or you get COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT RESULTS.

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Thumbnail of user alans358
Sweden
1 review
5 helpful votes
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July 25th, 2019

Thats strange that i got an duckduckgo ad on Youtube which is one of GOOGLE programs. And in the ad it was said that Google is bad etc.

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Ohio
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April 18th, 2022

Used DDG for over 2 years with no problems but now I see your CEO is a Progressive Censoring Marxist I am gone for good. Google mini me

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Thumbnail of user chcikenw
Netherlands
1 review
6 helpful votes
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May 31st, 2022

Terrible search results so you cant find what you want easily. It takes a very long time to do so.
DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR USE

Tip for consumers:
DO NOT DOWNLOAD

Thumbnail of user akirac1
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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May 4th, 2020

THIS IS GREAT NO MORE CREEPY ADS OR CREEPY WORDS OR PEOPLE SPYinG ON ME AT NIGHT but my mom works at apple I can't believe this!

Thumbnail of user jackw66
New York
2 reviews
31 helpful votes
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November 24th, 2014

I love this places privacy but google is better when it comes to searches.

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