Reviews for DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials by DuckDuckGo
240 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14007237, 7 years agoI am disappointed. I expected results that would be relevant to my search, but it doesn't seem to be the case. E.g., my search line is in Ukrainian, the results are in Russian, leading to Russian websites. Are you guys kidding me? How does it make you different from Google? Btw, your "partnership with Yandex" has a bad smell - of FSB.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13940077, 7 years agoBreaks several websites, including sites I've written, by arbitrarily redirecting HTTPS traffic to HTTP traffic.
Needless to say, that does not improve privacy. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13826914, 7 years agoso weit zwar ok, - aber wenn man es deinstalliert,
lässt sich die Startseite nicht mehr wirklich ändern - sie Springt immer wieder auf DuckDuckgo zurück.
Es lässt sich also nicht wirklich deinstallieren!
und sowas kenn ich eigentlich nur von Adware und ähnliches Zeug.
Sowas geht gar nicht! - Rated 1 out of 5by eUROs, 7 years agoIf you are wondering why Videos can't be Loaded on websites, then this Extension is very FAULTY.
I had to Uninstall this Extension, Because it was Blocking a Live TV channel website, from my Country Cyprus:
http://www.sigmatv.com/live
It couldn't load the video to watch the channel. Other browsers was loading the video with no problem.
I discovered that it was this Addon, Because I had to go through a "Painstaking process" Disabling ALL of my addons and start Enabling them back again from the start. One-by-one, to discover which Addon was faulty.
And this addon was blocking this channel video. - 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 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 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. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13722639, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13670248, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13337649, 7 years agoStates it blocks advertising trackers but actually outright blocks many ads. This destroys media revenues and forces businesses to become even more invasive.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13545453, 7 years agoruins layouts of some sites
for example: https://lenta.ru/Developer response
posted 7 years agoHi. Do you have examples of sites that are broken please, so we can fix it? - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13539747, 7 years agoThis plugin crippled my browsing experience. Some sites pegged my CPU at 100% with this extension enabled. A great shame because I'm a fan of their search engine, but it had to go. Browsing is now very fast again.
The only other add-on I use is uBlock Origin. If this occurred because they're incompatible, it's uBlock that wins.
Using Firefox Developer Edition 58.0b7 (64-bit) on macOS High Sierra 10.13.1. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12438945, 7 years ago