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1 review
4 helpful votes
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Duckduckgo no longer supported free speech and started to censor search results. I recommend using Brave Browser as the last hope.

Date of experience: March 12, 2022
Austria
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fast and save
May 12, 2021

It is a very good searchengine and when i am searching stuff i wont get advertised by the company with the rest of the products

Date of experience: May 12, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Good but not perfect
November 22, 2018

Nothing is perfect, but DDG is cleaner and quicker. All the drama over search? Get over it people. You don't wanna use, then don't.

Date of experience: November 20, 2018
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: February 1, 2021
Massachusetts
1 review
3 helpful votes
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No obvious intrusions no tracking no adds easy access search bar on my homepage. Search results are better than google.

Date of experience: June 3, 2019
Iowa
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Its a scam
December 11, 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.

Date of experience: December 11, 2019
Florida
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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You're Done
March 11, 2022

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

Date of experience: March 11, 2022
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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What the heck?!?!
August 7, 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.

Date of experience: August 7, 2021
Colorado
1 review
12 helpful votes
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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 , 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) 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.

Date of experience: May 9, 2016
GB
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Duck Duck Gone
March 13, 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!

Date of experience: March 13, 2022
New York
15 reviews
89 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: September 25, 2019
Sweden
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Thats Strange
July 25, 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.

Date of experience: July 25, 2019
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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GOOD
May 4, 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!

Date of experience: May 3, 2020
New York
2 reviews
31 helpful votes
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I love this places privacy but google is better when it comes to searches.

Date of experience: November 24, 2014

Overview

DuckDuckGo has a rating of 2.3 stars from 223 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. DuckDuckGo ranks 234th among Search sites.

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