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DuckDuckGo Reviews Summary

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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Canada
1 review
12 helpful votes
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For security and privacy reasons I moved to duckduckgo. Come, however I am frustrated that all my search directed from US to Canada. This has already caused several complications for me, especially when I ordered merchandises and made payments! I feel bad, because they took advantage of my trust. So, often now I go back to google.

Date of experience: September 13, 2020
Mexico
5 reviews
19 helpful votes
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What I appreciate about this search engine is there is more credibility, unlike the very biased search engine that dominates the marketplace. They provide me with quality results and I have made this my default search engine.

Date of experience: September 7, 2020
South Carolina
1 review
23 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: August 3, 2020
GB
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Duckduckgo
July 30, 2020

I've been using ddg as an alternative to google on my laptop for the last 7 years.
Not that good for anything non US.
I'm in England and if i wanted to know about a premier league footballer that got injured yesterday, DDG will give me some outdated info from 4 years ago or info about USA footballers.
Also, when looking to buy things, even though i have selected uk search, 70% of search returns are for US companies.
DDG: probably good if you live in the US, otherwise, very time consuming to find what you're looking for...
Nice idea though...

Date of experience: July 30, 2020
Massachusetts
4 reviews
9 helpful votes
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I can't use duckduck because every time I have to answer something online, or in my email, it doesn't redirect me to where it should. It just redirects me to a bookmarked page. It makes me so angry that I'll just be tracked by Google. I can't answer anything on an important form because I lose my page. That's a really bad feature. People need to be directed to the right page when filling out forms.

Date of experience: July 30, 2020
Canada
1 review
33 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: July 20, 2020
District of Columbia
1 review
16 helpful votes
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I want bing I didn't even go to duck duck go and now each time I turn on safari instead of wonderful google I get horid duck duck go that never bring s me to anything useful instead I get uslees info I don't want! If you care about being able to have good research or other things that most of HUMANS do NEVER EVER FOR A MILLION DOLLARS UE DUCK DUCK GO IN YOUR LIFE!

Date of experience: June 25, 2020
GB
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Stupendous
June 22, 2020

Only just discovered duck duck go and I'm thoroughly impressed from the start. It's so refreshing to get both sides of a debate and much better results. Good on you duck duck go. Shame shame shame Google!

Date of experience: June 20, 2020
Minnesota
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Google Fights back
June 15, 2020

Using DuckDuckGo in Chrome as my default and I have gmail and my only email. I was doing great and then I started having errors getting to sights. I started seeing people complain that DuckDuckGo was the problem but, I could copy the link from my email and go outside of Gmail to Chrome with DuckDuckGo and paste and it worked. Changed default search engine and it worked. Moved over to Foxfire with DuckDuckGo as default and Gmail and the link worked. Moved over to Edge and the Gmail with DuckDuckGo as the default and the link worked. Now the link https://www.pollking.com/. To Google a very "LIBERAL" it privately owned til 2004 then went public but it is still very controlled by Liberals to this site gets a DuckDuckGo and a "Right" hit. So blame DuckDuckGo, NO I do not as this is a fight back issue as Google tries to maintain it very strong foot hold and say it is a DuckDuckGo problem. When in fact it is a Google Chrome road block.

Date of experience: June 15, 2020
GB
1 review
21 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: June 11, 2020
Texas
1 review
5 helpful votes
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This is amazing.
May 29, 2020

This is a great webpage, very easy to set up. Gives you free rain of what you want to search up a great web page overall and it does not give me ads, the ads are one big reason that I installed this browser. Thank you duckduckgo.

Date of experience: May 28, 2020
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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As most of you may be aware, the U.S. federal gov. Mandated that web browsers are required to have a back door for them to access. This is to protect the public against crinimal activity.The last of the browsers that went out without a trace ended back in the late 1990s. I use to have one, but by todays standards, ghost browsers would be timed out or halted my most servers.Tor has a fairly secure browsers, it takes some knowledge to use, and it is slower to surf. Would suggest having a firewall to reduce call back traffic from your own apps. Really good browsers connect outside the states, and re-enter, but alot of risk associated if you dont know what your doing, info. Can be stolen abroad, and possibly no U.S. laws can protect you. Then the U.S. D. H. S. will be monitoring everything as a foreign connection comming into the states.

Date of experience: May 13, 2020
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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GOOD
May 5, 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
Spain
1 review
9 helpful votes
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$#*! you Google! Finally someone is doing something aginst you money driven bastards, destroying people business just for money, auction based little $#*!! $#*! you!

Date of experience: March 20, 2020
India
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Nice 1
March 16, 2020

Nice 1... Appreciated. Highly appreciated and I will give 10 star if possible out of 5*. God bless u aamin

Date of experience: March 15, 2020
India
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Masa Allah it's best option in front of google and now google transfer everything still privacy also. Shame and damn on Google, insaAllah know no more google in next some years.

It's Messiah 's word, if google can hurt The Messiah then insaAllah he is know finishing self aamin.

Date of experience: March 15, 2020
Illinois
1 review
6 helpful votes
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DuckDuckGo
March 4, 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

Date of experience: March 3, 2020
Canada
1 review
38 helpful votes
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March 1,2020 - I have been using duckduckgo for a couple months now, and every time I perform a duckduckgo search in one tab, then open a different BROWSER and search in Google, I get practically the same results! Duckduckgo does seem to be private, but I also want really great, non-censored results. You won't get this from duckduckgo. I am looking at alternatives now.

Date of experience: March 1, 2020
Ireland
3 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Great search engine
February 25, 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.

Date of experience: February 24, 2020
India
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Thanks Duck Duck go
February 18, 2020

Thanks Duck Duck go! The stupid Google didn't let me get the information I needed to uninstall a Trojan virus in my smartphone but you gave me! So, I thank you so much my security level is optimized now! I uninstalled the Trojan! You're the best Web Browsing App! I appreciate your work the creator of Duck Duck go! Keep it up! Hey, Can you recommend me any keyboard because Gboard also collects my typed letter! So, is there any Duck Duck go keyboard? Anyway thanks!

Date of experience: February 17, 2020