Reviews for DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials by DuckDuckGo
2,262 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by hidalgo, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13353122, 7 years agoeasy to use, most of the time i don't even notice it's there but it still does its thing: go go duckduckgo!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13801775, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Roberto, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Aelisya Arisa, 7 years agoPas mal manquerais cependant un upgrade insecure request
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ricardo, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13766568, 7 years agoI hated it! The extension locked me out of my bank account that is protected by Trusteer.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13343974, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13763278, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Bill Peschel, 7 years agoWhen I installed this on my old box (Compaq Presario, 2GB RAM) and my Asus Netbook (Windows 10 version I bought a year ago), it slowed down Firefox so much that new tabs would not load. It swallowed 100% of my Disk access. I was about to abandon Firefox until I followed the recommendation to disable my add-ons. When I disabled this plugin, the problem disappeared.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13751808, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Theodore, 7 years agoAmazing !!!!! It should be available for android's firefox too !!!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13584139, 7 years agoSimpel ,einfachsnel und gut qua securty ! 5 sternen wert !. Gruss Tom.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13390522, 7 years agoI've become a big fan of duckduckgo over the past few years as I've grown more aware of the rampant privacy/security transgresisions that flock with you everywhere you go on the web. I like this extension - it worked well enough, but for me it felt like a bit of a compromise so that more people will use it (which I think is a really good thing in a lot of ways) compared to the mix of privacy/security extensions I usually run. That extra protection comes at the cost of lots of manual feedback/whitelisting/blacklisting to pretty much every new site I got to which is a pain in the ass, and is prone to breaking sites which means I've got to spend more time tinkering with the settings. This extension however, seemed to work well enough out of the box and hasnt created any issues with breaking sites.
If you're at all concerned about privacy, or feel violated by companies watching everything you do on the web and then selling that to whomever is willing to pay for it, but arent wanting to spend anything more than a nominal amount of time to protect yourself than this is a great option. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13572729, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12775621, 7 years agoMe sinto seguro com essa aplicação, muito obrigado!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Deathshead747, 7 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13521425, 7 years agoDoesn't consistently force HTTPS. How hard can that be? To be fair, HTTPS Everywhere fails also. Example site: http://www.recordrentacar.com
Update 1: Do you really need a list for that? cannot you simple try HTTPS version of the site?Developer response
posted 7 years agoHi, thanks for the feedback. Our current list covers most of the traffic on the Web, and we believe it is the most comprehensive out there, but it does not yet include every site. We are working on expanding it as quickly as possible, however. - Rated 5 out of 5by ximian83, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13735043, 7 years ago
- 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.