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Reviews for DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials by DuckDuckGo

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Review by Publius Maximus
by Publius Maximus, 2 years ago
DDG has never been able to secure my trust. I am an IT professional who has rigorously tested dozens of search engines. My five favorites are: Brave, MetaGer, Mojeek, Qwant, and Swisscows -- none of which are hosted in the USA. DDG is nearly as insecure as Google or BIng.

DDG's lack of transparency in operating policies, blocking trackers, yet allowing some trackers (anonymous or not) without clearly informing users destroys trust and credibility.

https://thenextweb.com/news/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-sparks-backlash

If you read the entire DDG policies, you will discover that they pass data to affiliates eBay and Amazon.

Developer response

posted 2 years ago
Hi, we have a help page that explains our web tracking protection in detail. If you're interested, you can check it out here: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/web-tracking-protections/ Also, many of our products are open source so you can look into them for yourself.
2,220 reviews
  • by John Smiths, 2 days ago
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  • by BZ, 6 days ago
    Configuration options are sparse. I want to use this extension for email protection, but there is no way to globally turn off other features. I'm using other extensions for privacy protection.
  • by 000000, 14 days ago
    Uses GET instead of POST for search
  • by Funboxfox, 16 days ago
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  • by Ota, 20 days ago
    Please add android support. Love it on the desktop tho
  • by Firefox user 18489014, 21 days ago
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  • by Firefox user 18659072, a month ago
    Works as intended! I know I'm safe with DuckDuckGo & Firefox!
  • by Firefox user 17565712, a month ago
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  • by AnneF, a month ago
    This includes https upgrading & other things I don't have to do separately. Thank you.
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