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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 sandyc129
Alabama
1 review
48 helpful votes
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May 17th, 2018

Have been using Duck Duck Go instead of google for a while now. The problem is I still get google pop up ads all the time? Anyway to stop this? Need help!

Thumbnail of user vanv29
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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January 30th, 2021

A friend from church told me about & showed me duck duck go. I love it & the logo is very cute. It works great and I am so thankful for yall. How do you make money? Thanks again. Van V.

Tip for consumers:
Just work with it. You'll really like it. I want far away from bad, controlling, powermad, high tech political monopolies. Duck duck go is a breath of fresh air, far away from the oppressing dangerous left that monopolize EVERYTHING.

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Thumbnail of user daves1313
New Mexico
1 review
8 helpful votes
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June 11th, 2021

You go to duck go they have you enter in all your information then the give you 2 options to enter your information once again it don't save you any money I'm pretty sure they sell your information because how else would they make money I got quoted the same price going thru them as I did going directly to the company I use no savings what so ever

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Just don't

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Thumbnail of user ericl38
Ohio
33 reviews
47 helpful votes
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November 30th, 2013

DuckDuckGo provides great results in an easy to search site. I've found things on here that I didn't find elsewhere, and it's service is quick and easy to use! Highly recommended!

Thumbnail of user echosyne
Texas
20 reviews
86 helpful votes
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December 9th, 2014

My Mac desktop with Mavericks has two accounts, Admin and Secondary. I found DuckDuckGo at Apple's extensions page, installed DuckDuck Go in the Admin account and it duplicated itself in the secondary account. Search results are commercialized and simplistic. It hides from all computer searches and I cannot uninstall it. All instructions for removal that I found, even at DuckDuckGo site, do not work. I must conclude from this that Apple and DuckDuckGo are both criminal.

Thumbnail of user cassandral158
Ireland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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May 3rd, 2021

Im so grateful for DuckDuckGo! Safer for my kids as well and gives me peace of mind. BEST ever. I hIghly recommend everyone using the internet to go DuckDuckGo

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Thumbnail of user suhasn
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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February 17th, 2021

I've been using ddg from about 9 months, I live in India and it seems to give pretty accurate information and the search results are pretty up to date exactly what I'd expect (most of the times), where it kinda trails behind is Maps, if I search for a specific place, it uses Apple Maps (I do know that Apple respects privacy and is much better in those terms). Apple Maps is basically unusable in India, it does not show any relevant information, ratings or pictures about the place, so I found myself switching to google to perform anything related to finding a place. Rest assured, one of the best private alternatives to Google. I personally use it on Brave browser on Windows/Linux and the ddg app is good enough for Android.

Tip for consumers:
Read the tips for a better search result on ddg's website, they kinda help you out. use google for mapping services.

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Thumbnail of user nickh130
Netherlands
2 reviews
21 helpful votes
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February 9th, 2018

I recently made the switch and couldn't be happier. Results which are removed from Google because of copyright are usually still available on DuckDuckGo

Thumbnail of user jeffb218
Arizona
1 review
36 helpful votes
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August 21st, 2017

I thought I'd give DuckDuckGo a try when I switched over to Firefox. Boy was I shocked by the results of my first search. I searched for Al Gore's funders. The enitre (ENTIRE) set of search results were completely fallacious, rightwing, Nazi nonsense. I couldn't believe it. So, DuckDuckGo is GONE.

Thumbnail of user joec81
Illinois
1 review
16 helpful votes
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August 28th, 2014

Did a test search for "least expensive voice over programs." DuckDuckGo went straight to "cell phones". A quick comparison with Google confirmed that DuckDuckGo is a waste of time.

Tip for consumers:
Don't bother. It is glaringly inadequate.

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Thumbnail of user floydb25
Georgia
7 reviews
52 helpful votes
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September 7th, 2019

I was looking for an image of Al Gore Rolling Stone Cover. Google images has many. Duckduckgo has ZERO. You can scroll down to thousands of Al Gore pics and NOT A SINGLE ONE is the Rolling Stone Cover. Only an evil person would deliberately remove that.

Thumbnail of user jimmyb136
New Zealand
4 reviews
25 helpful votes
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August 22nd, 2019

DuckDuckGo is okay, it gives you more results and if you get the chrome extension it will rate the safety of the websites. But it does still run cookies, (although that would be tracking the websites you're on), and... wait, hold up. Why is DuckDuckGo making an extension for google chrome on the GOOGLE CHROME webstore? Google chrome is obviously owned by google, as stated in the name. DuckDuckGo also advertises itself on YOUTUBE, also owned by google. Welp, now google is helping DuckDuckGo. Umm...

Thumbnail of user pissedo97
Pennsylvania
1 review
6 helpful votes
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December 1st, 2018

Incorrect time for steelers game wont even give acc championship game dish channel $#*!ing garbage cant even complain to ddg customer service without 30 min bs forms

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GB
1 review
21 helpful votes
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June 11th, 2020

Search results are often geographically inappropriate; specify 'U. K. only' and you get USA results! Duck Duck Go is, therefore, totally unreliable as an effective search engine.

Thumbnail of user lead17
Louisiana
1 review
7 helpful votes
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January 31st, 2019

Although it appears I am using the duckduckgo web site on my local computer, I can still see the previous users Facebook account still logged in. In addition, the game I play Farmerama.com has several names of previous uses on the account, and these did not even sign in on the same day. The library used to delete this information on a daily basis, but now using Duckduckgo, they don't seem to be doing so. The Duckduckgo site comes up when you put a Chrome icon, and the library is using duckduckgo as the default. If you have a contract with Chrome, something regarding privacy isn't right. I don't know why you would trust a Google browser anyway, since you have things written by your executives saying they are not trustworthy when it comes to privacy. I can't send you a like because the library won't allow me to save screen shot, or any other file to the computer. The library is the Alexandria, LA *******.

When I submitted a complaint it sent my complaint to a totally unrelated web site. I sent them the following message.

The duckduckgo sent me to this site because I had previously clicked on something about Quora and duckduckgo. It redirected the email to that site. Duckduckgo says they are easy to contact, but apparently not so.

Thumbnail of user dod2
Canada
1 review
33 helpful votes
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July 20th, 2020

Privacy? No, that's observably and obviously a lie. Good search results? No, your research will be a pain to complete. Unbiased searches? You'll be quick to notice omitted results of websites or entire opinions, so that too is a pipe dream. At least they don't sell data, right? Suuuuuure, that's why Google can provide suggestions based on duckduckgo searches. Well, I can watch videos without going to actual websites like Youtube, which store cookies, so there's that! No, duckduckgo loves cookies, and furthermore, the feature that allows you to watch those videos on duckduckgo is disappearing due to cookie blocking, which was stored anyway.

In short, this website is a pathetic excuse for a search engine who tries to get people to use it based on blatant lying as advertising. I don't know what a good option is, but duckduckgo is not it. I don't know how these big Internet corporations are not getting sued left and right while being dismantled for privacy infringement, data collection, biased search presentation, and monopoly like business practice.

Thumbnail of user k.janek
Michigan
1 review
8 helpful votes
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March 13th, 2022

Deleted the app. App not as promoted as it fell along the path of censorship in America that has run rampant these last 2 words. Losing trust more and more by the second.

Thumbnail of user st489
South Carolina
1 review
23 helpful votes
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August 3rd, 2020

I have been accessing a popular games website to play games. They limit you to six games a day. Up until a few weeks ago, I could log out and then log back in and play as many games per day as I liked, although due to other items on my schedule, I rarely played beyond the six games.

However, two to three weeks ago, all of a sudden, if I logged out and then back in, my earlier search was highlighted indicating that I had already accessed that site that day. So when I tried to play more games, I was informed that I had no plays left for the day.

I have tried rebooting my settings, opting out of and then back into Duckduckgo as my search engine. It makes absolutely no difference. The games website still shuts me out.

Perhaps not incidentally, my media device has recently been overwhelmed with advertisements to the point that I opt for "reader view" whenever it is offered as an option.

I called Duckduckgo at *******456 and a voice message informed me that I was being transferred to a "Google" voice messaging machine.

So I searched and sure enough, Google purchased Duckduckgo with the inevitable results that my searches are now being tracked. I am planning on calling the FCC.

Thumbnail of user gloriap8
California
2 reviews
19 helpful votes
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May 23rd, 2015

Within 24 hours of switching my browser, scam email was sent from a very (formerly) pristine gmail account. This gmail account even had a new, very challenging password combination.

Thumbnail of user danielm1499
Ireland
3 reviews
8 helpful votes
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February 25th, 2020

I love duckduckgo it's great for privacy although the results are not as accurate as google I think it is worth the sacrifice to stop google following you everywhere.

Thumbnail of user timothyj132
Canada
2 reviews
25 helpful votes
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December 15th, 2019

This company needs to be shut down. They thrive on paranoia and false advertising, claiming to be 'completely anonymous' (completely false). They use all that 'evil' data collected by Google to target you with annoying ads that scream "GOOGLE TRACKS YOU!" You don't say! The CEO of this organization is desperate to convince people that Google is an evil company and that data collection should be banned and that we should all use 'DuckDuckGo'. Keep dreaming, pal. DO NOT USE DuckDuckGo, it is a fraudulent service that fetches search results from Yahoo/Bing and is NOT 'anonymous'. Get a VPN and boycott this crap.

Thumbnail of user reesea14
Louisiana
1 review
6 helpful votes
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March 4th, 2020

I love DuckDuckGo. It is so cool. On settings you can use your thumb print. The only downside is that if somebody gets on your phone they can add there finger print

Thumbnail of user piperm1
France
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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January 20th, 2017

Accidentally bumped into this search engine while using one of the known browsers. Seems to work well, but I dont really get the point of actually using this.

Thumbnail of user ianm11
Australia
140 reviews
751 helpful votes
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June 21st, 2011

I have been trying to find a more private and secure engine to Google Search for some time now. What I find worrying is the fact that Google traces all your moves, logs your computer details, your IP address, you location and so much more! I then came across Google SSL, more secure against outside tracking, but still doesn't stop Google from tracking you.

I then found https://www.ixquick.com, which has a great engine. It comes with SSL and doesn't even log your IP address or your search terms. But then - the problem with Ixquick.com is that it doesn't turn up very relevant search results. Its now about a month later and I have found the best one yet. DuckDuckGo! It supports both HTTP and HTTPS which is good. It also doesn't log your search terms or even your IP address.

I compared Google's search results on my name to DuckDuckGo search results. Funnily enough, I found DuckDuckGo to come up more relevant than Google. I managed to find some old profiles and some press releases that I never thought were published on the net!

This isn't all though. The SSL version located here: https://duckduckgo.com/ has a Firefox addon called "HTTPS Everywhere". Thus, when entering sites like Facebook, Wikipedia, etc that support HTTPS connection, you can click to enter SSL mode. Finally - DuckDuckGo.com also works with the TOR Network. You can run this search engine through their proxy to get ultimate privacy.

Thumbnail of user lescannel
Greece
1 review
24 helpful votes
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May 27th, 2017

I do not care about privacy, i care about having less oriented proposition to my query LOLOLOL
Google is biased in politic, global warming (lot of site non scientific and pro AGW) or explicit sex language
Make some test yourself

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