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strict safety search issues
When searching for images, I do my very best to keep the search key words as neutral as possible, and set the safety to strict - yet I still get inappropriate content at times, which really ticks. Me. Off. Especially knowing that some parents use strict safety searches for their kids, and said kids still stumbling on content they shouldn't be seeing anyway.
This has happened several times since I began using DuckDuckGo a few months ago. They need to be stricter over the image results, maybe have a living person (not another robot) review them to make sure they fit the strict safety search result requirements in case the algorithm missed something.
Seriously, though, I shouldn't be finding inappropriate images when researching a 100% clean video game like popular kid-friendly Nintendo games, or dresses from the Renaissance, as another complaint mentioned!
usps change of address
when searching for USPS change of address the top listing is Postaddresschanges.com
this site mimics the USPS address change site and charges $39.95 for the service the Postal service charges $1.05 for.
When I called the number listed at the bottom of their site to cancel...I was told they have no record of me.
They have, how ever dinged my credit card for $39.95
Clearly this is. a scam site
porn sites come up on duckduckgo
07/17/2019 around 2:39pm
I am growing spanish black radishes in my garden . I searched duckduckgo with a question which was "spanish black radish is too hard to cut".
This was the first duckduckgo find:
Insanely Hot Spanish Brunette [censored]ed Very Hard - XNXX.COM
Search domain www.xnxx.com/video-f3flfdd/insanely_hot_spanish_brunette_fucked_very_hardhttps://www.xnxx.com/video-f3flfdd/insanely_hot_spanish_brunette_fucked_very_hard
Insanely Hot Spanish Brunette [censored]ed Very Hard - Edit title ... 18 min - 615, 088 hits - 720p Insatiable Spanish [censored] Rebeca Linares gets [censored]ed very hard. This is before she destroyed her body with those horrible new tits.
This was the 5th on the list of finds:
'dick too big homemade wife' Search - XVIDEOS.COM
Search domain www.xvideos.com/?k=dick+too+big+homemade+wifehttps://www.xvideos.com/?k=dick+too+big+homemade+wife
NOT GOOD AT ALL...
Will I receive a reply from you concerning this matter?
There have been porn attacks whilst using DDG. I don't think DDG is unsafe, but the filth has a way of shoving its way into a phone or notebook -- sabotage? "delvers"? Or hacking come from the vicious?
image search
I searched for Dakoka glass marks and got a bunch of hard core porno in the images.
The address is above. I don't understand why I need to add all this typing in order to get you to look at it. Just trying to help you make the internet safe and I have to jump through hoops to get you to read my complaint.
The next time I see porno on your site I guess I'll just report it to the authorities.
browser from play store
I just installed the browser and was testing it when i ran across the webRTC vunerabilty. The browser allows internal ip address gathering or real ip if using a vpn. in firefox it can be turned off with about:config/media.peerconnection.enabled/false but do not know how to set those type of options with your browser.
It might be worth mentioning it was only ip4 and not ip6 with duck where as firefox was giving up both internal addresses
A fairly serious breach for those of us trying to get some measure of online privacy.
Duckduckgo
Version 52803
strict search
I was searching for Renaissance fair clothing on strict search. Although the first 20 images were mostly a mixture of beautiful time period dresses and simple bar maid outfits from the time, the further down I scrolled, the more I got images of women in their underwear and bras. Not like for a bra commercial or catalog. I am talking about women in sexual poses very indiscreetly wearing modern clothing never to be seen on Renaissance fairs or during that time period. In short, it is soft porn. I have no interest in seeing this lewdness or nudity and neither does my husband, who finds it very offensive. Please work harder to make your strict search effective. If I had a teenager or younger I would have to ban them from the internet completely until I could find a strict search for them that actually worked. That is really a shame because teenagers need to understand the internet in order to apply to jobs and complete school assignments.
forced searches
when I type a web address into the address bar at the top of my browser, DDG does a search for it.
That's not what I want. I just want to go straight to the website, presuming I have not made a typo.
DDG is co-opting my website address input and forcing me to accept it as the basis of a gratuitous and unneeded search.
I'm glad I found this Complaints Board, because now that I've written a few words about it, I am realizing that I am not just merely annoyed about this.
firefox
Dear Duck Duck Go,
When I click to 'Add Duck Duck Go to Firefox' (screengrab attached). I get the message 'The Add-on could not be downloaded because of a connection failure' (screengrab also attached) but there is absolutely no connection failure. I have tried over and over again and adjusting Firefox preferences but am presuming this is something that Firefox have as part of their running software to prevent Duck Duck installation. Have you come across this before and if so, do you know an easy way to circumvent? Many thanks, Dan
ad to switch to duckduckgo?
I have been a DuckDuckGo user for several years but every time I open my DuckDuckGo search page I get a pop up ad that asks me to use DuckDuckGo.
What can I do the stop receiving the Pop Ups from DuckDuckGo?
I use I.E, --Do you have a recommendation for anything better? I receive a lot of ads, even though I use DuckDuckGo and a computer security service.
I do appreciate the fine job DuckDuckGo is trying to do for we users.
Thank you
white couple pictures vs black couple pictures
hi DDG,
I've recently become a follower - so i'm very excited about the privacy that you punt.
that said - i was searching bot hin google and DDG search engines for "white couple pictures", and i got a whole lot of mixed couple pictures! Despite having virtually the same picture results, it was a lot of Mixed couples - NOT WHITE.
I'm perplexed.
i then did the same search of "black couple pictures" and wow there were alot of black couples!
I can't see how your search engine can not differentiate between white, black and mixed results . This is crazy - all we want is truth and transparency and no agenda... yet we seem to run into this everywhere - even at DDG.
If i want to search for dogs - the result should be dogs
the same is for horses, cats, people, houses, cars, fish, bricks, stapler, screen, etc.
why cant we find white couples. suurly your IT geniuses can write an algorithm that can search or identify markers on pictures that can select and identify white couples? surely?
anyway - thanks for the privacy - im loving that!
regards
Isaias
search engine
I don't want to describe this as a complaint about what is otherwise a great search engine and a necessary replacement for the corrupt and monopolized activity of corporate social media that functions very similarly to mainstream corporate television networks.
With that said. . Why is DuckDuckGo using Wikipedia as it's go to for instant answers? Isn't that what we're trying to leave behind? Wikipedia promotes every mainstream brand of propaganda and BS pushed by corporate interests and bad government. Has DDG knuckled under to arm twisting also?
This post is presented with the following perspective:
In a world of corruption, there are no conspiracies. Corruption exists wherever disclosure can be managed. Normalization is the process by which we are made unaware though we find it all around us. We cannot acknowledge what we cannot accept when we remain cuckolded or "cucked" to the point that we cannot stand upon our own two feet and recognize anything for ourselves. In it's place, we may fall for every kind of hysteria that can be generated.
Ultimately, ideologies are not necessary as a handicap for taking on one's own perspective and being willing to think for oneself, without labels or justification of half the population in support and the other half against, as the hated and reviled. The only hate filled people left today are the accusers, while all else question now who are what they should be a part of, if not the "other side". I have nothing against the other side. I only say that you are your own first authority, to return to that self focus that you were originally given as your divine nature inherent even before religion was instilled in you in some cases. Your first inclination as a child was to integrate with your surroundings. It is only after sufficient distraction and disruptive example that you can be removed from self focus and doubt yourself and your intentions. Only through distraction can the illusion of guilt be inserted as a part of your awareness.
Once divided within, only then can you be divided from another in disagreement, compulsion and conflict. . sourced through guilt and division that originates within while accepting outside sources for interpretation and no longer trusting that center within where true understanding takes place. When self becomes new-age, it becomes another religion. Recognize yourself without labels or expectations. Know who you are from the beginning, for self focus never leaves you, though you may be distracted for a lifetime.
search results
Hello, I am the victim of defamatory abuse from a site - pornwikileaks. This has been over my head for ten years, and hurts my family as well. After being subject to stalking, domestic violence, hate crime and discrimination, I have obtained a Public Official/Safe At Home demand form from Secretary of State. The are a quite a few links that reference me on this search engine that harm my chances, just to get a job or maintain some dignity.
http://www.pornwikileaks.com/wiki/?title=Category:Porn_Stars_By_Real_Name&until=Cassandra+Batte
http://www.pornwikileaks.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Porn_actors&from=Candice+Smith
http://pornwikileaks.com/wiki/[removed]
http://pornwikileaks.com/wiki/[removed]
Please let me know what my options are, any advice would be appreciated.
Thank you,
[name removed]
[protected]
privacy
I was interested whether an organization or business could track my search on DuckDuckGo. I did a search only on DuckDuckGo for guitar lessons and when I go to MSN news, there's an ad for guitar lessons. How did MSN know that I was looking for guitar lessons on DuckDuckGo?! The company states that my privacy is paramount and yet, apparently, other corporations have access to my searches. Why?
video service
why has duckduckgo yet to come to the understanding that "duckducktube" is so badly needed.
with current censorship happening with youtube, duckducktube would give users an uncensored platform
this is an incredible chance to expand duckduckgo and save freedom and free speach
imagine the profits and imagine freedom of expression and ideas :)
you already have a great platform to launch your new site
please help us fight for freedom
The reason is probably not what you want to hear:
While nobody really knows the specific details, it's been speculated by a lot of people that YouTube only became profitable within the last year or two, and before then had been run at a pretty substantial loss for well over a decade. Before hitting profitability, it's thought that Google simply kept it running because it was valuable to them for a lot of other reasons (audience engagement and the fact that it was basically the only thing remotely close to a "social network" that they had ever been able to keep from being a complete dumpster fire)
Video streaming is expensive and difficult, even for services with comparatively small libraries like Netflix, Hulu, or even the MUCH more limited-in-scope Float Plane. It requires a lot of server overhead, storage, and bandwidth just to host and serve the videos on demand. But on top of that, you also have to deal with encoding everything that gets uploaded several times over. Whenever you go to youtube and you choose which resolution you want, each of those resolutions is actually a separate video file that YouTube has to encode, store, and be ready to switch to as the user's internet connection or your own bandwidth usage changes. This is all on top of all of the normal issues with user account management, comments, security, etc...
The biggest hurdle preventing DuckDuckGo from doing this, though, is simply that they don't have the advertising revenue stream to do it. If they created a service like this, it would pretty much need to be a subscription service by simple necessity. Google has only barely been able to turn YouTube profitable very recently, and they were only able to do it with all of the shady things that they have been doing to track users on and off the site and appeasing their real customers: corporate advertisers. DuckDuckGo simply does not have access to the same kinds of ad revenue, and their entire organization is founded on the idea of NOT doing all of the privacy-invading things that the other big tech companies are doing.
If you want a new video service to compete with YouTube, I think we need to look to decentralized computing for the answer. The tech isn't quite there, yet, but it will be soon, especially as gigabit become more and more available. Once we have universal gigabit upload speeds, I think that having distributed, mesh video services will start to become a real possibility. Something that uses protocols or basic ideas behind torrents and blockchain to share the burden of hosting and processing video files between all users is something that I think will happen. The most likely model would probably be to offer users a choice between paying a subscription fee to view and/ or upload new videos, or running a distributed host program and allocate a certain amount of storage space on their machine to help support the network when the PC is idling.
There would be users who do not want to let their computers act as video hosts because they are worried about security concerns, wear on their hardware, because they don't like leaving their computers running when they are away, or simply because they don't have a PC at all or that is fast enough to meet minimum spec (or they don't have enough bandwidth to do so without making their whole home network slow to a crawl). For these people, they could pay a subscription, which would add value to the network that could then be used to incentivize other people to host multiple servers to create a secondary revenue stream for themselves. It's basically the Etherium model, but for video hosting. The only nuts that really need to be cracked are distributed file hosting and figuring out the latency problems with distributed computing/ blockchain in general. But these are solvable problems and there's a lot of people working on them right now, which makes me think this is where the next big disruptive revolution is going to come from. Not from digital money, but from the fact that this could possibly make the current centralized internet service model totally irrelevant.
Besides, if DuckDuckGo started their own video hosting service, they would just eventually have the same problems that Google does now. Governments and companies would start targeting them for censorship. Whether it's to protect their IP's, so stifle political dissidents, or bury negative product reviews, having this kind of powerful communication tool run by any one group will always make it a huge target. This is why you want these things totally distributed. Try as hard as they could, media companies and governments could not shut down bit torrent, and that's because it's a distributed protocol with no central place it can be shut down from. That's what we need for ALL of our internet services if we ever want to truly break free from corporate and government censorship.
privacy matter
Do I need to turn off or in some way disable Google while using duckduckgo search eng? It seems that some of my searches are getting into Google system as I've been seeing ads by Google about the items or services I've researched. Either that or your service is lieng and the info is coming from duckduckgo. I need and still use Google to get in touch with certain people and web sites as in some cases Google does what I wish to do and duckduckgo is not as effective. Also if Reddit is as involved with this service as I believe it to be I may be quitting duckduckgo and having my friends that have begun using it to guit as well. Redditt is a very shifty and untrustworthy company and doing anything involving them ends up being sold to highest bidder. Sorry but I'm not for sale.
If you could answer my query about Google I would be grafeful. Thanx
There are many ways Google could have gotten that information. Off the top of my head: 1. You're using Chrome, 2. Google Analytics (tracking scripts on the sites you visit), 3. Using an Android phone, 4. using Gmail (they build an advertising profile on you based on emails you receive). There's nothing DuckDuckGo can do to prevent any of those. Not sure why you think Reddit has anything to do with DuckDuckGo.
duckduckgo internet survey
I took your survey for the free product. Noted the flashlight that I wanted. Entered all my cr. card info, and it flashed "Error" and said that my cr. card was rejected. I reentered and used a different cr. card and got the same notice. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH MY CREDIT CARDS. THEY ARE ALL PAID IN FULL! YOUR SURVEY PRIZE WAS BS, AND I'M CONSIDERING NOT EVER USING DUCKDUCKGO AGAIN!
url's needed to be removed under the eu right to be forgotten legislation
Dear Sirs
RE: Personal Data Removal from duckduckgo Search Engine - Websites and Photograph Data sites listed below
I attach a list of websites containing personal data which have come to light and require deleting as they are in breach of First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Data Principles set out in the Data Protection Act 2018as weel as being in breach of the EU Generalal Data Protection Regulations. Therefore under Section 47 of the Data Protection Act 2018 and Article 17 of the General Data Protection Regulations 2018 they must be deleted and no longer be shown.
I have written to the individual sites but they have not had the courtesy to reply.
All the website and photo URL's showing on duckduckgo.com requiring deletion are as follows:
duckduckgo.com Website and photo URL's in need of Deletion/Removal
Getty Images - Implies guilt when when a unanimous not guilty verdict proved otherwise
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/conn-farrell-leaves-southwark-crown-court-in-south-london-news-photo/89577143
The Guardian - Implies guilt when when a unanimous not guilty verdict proved otherwise
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jun/08/trio-sell-ritz-hotel-scam-court
Company Director Check - Inaccurate Information
https://www.companydirectorcheck.com/conn-finnian-farrell-3
I look forward to receiving your confirmation of the deletion/removal to avoid my having to refer the matter to the Office of the Information Commissioner.
Yours faithfully
Conn Farrell
your no tracking policy
DuckDuckGo no tracking high privacy policy may be highly useful for darknet people or to do a large number of scams that are possible. The internet server your are providing could be a hub of darknet and malware thus ensuring easy transactions and say every thing bad you can say about. So as you say even you or anyone in the world can access it, it is easy for dark people to do their dirty work, except if some hackers can do something, so I ask how is this going to help the world other than a bit "privacy" feeling
privacy essentials won't run on firefox
Firefox has disabled Privacy Essentials as of today They say: Starting in Firefox version 57, only extensions built using WebExtensions APIs will work. Not sure if your add-ons are affected? See Firefox add-on technology is modernizing and these Frequently Asked Questions for details. They think this when your program is actually doing the opposite. Now I have to suffer slowdowns and ads again! Add-ons that can change your browser's settings without your consent or steal your information have become increasingly common. Some add-ons can add unwanted toolbars or buttons, change your search settings or inject ads into your computer. Firefox does now verify that the add-ons you install have been signed by Mozilla, digitally. This article explains the add-on signing feature and how it works.
I am angry and so are a lot of Firefox users as they disabled this as of today. Would you please try to work this out with them so we can use it again? Thanks!
Helene Tekulsky (a faithful user)
Yes, Firefox has disabled DDGPE add-on. This is a pain for me as well. Can you give an ETA on a new version that will be allowed by Firefox? This add-on was great for everything I needed. Also can you add a free VPN option to the new version. If it had a VPN option, I am unaware of it. Thanks.
Agreed! Ticked Me off to no end as well, .. I love that DDGPE was allowing Me to do. I suspect, .. Firefox [now no longer about the People as much as big money interests, . and thereby COMPROMISED], . Edge, [Microsoft, . We already know! their connections to certain Globalist agendas]... because it doesn't allow it to work, . even though it allows it to install, . and WILL NOT allow DuckDuckGo to be Default Search Engine. [[censored]], ...
I therefore likewise suspect, ... much if not ALL of the complaints I just red above, . "stealing money from My account", ... "Fake Charges"... "can't get rid of it, beware"... are ALL FF Operations to discredit with intent to destroy, .. a Search Engine and Privacy tools, .. that REALLY ARE operating "For the People", . and INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY!, .. and NOT! the Globalist Pigs, Fat Stacks.
DDG!, ... YOU NEED TO DESIGN YOUR OWN BROWSER SO THEY CAN NO LONGER DISABLE YOU, .. And so Individual Privacy, . ONCE AGAIN!, .. belongs to the Individual!
personal data requiring removal under the general data protection regulations and the data protection act 2018
Conn F Farrell
91 Greenfield Road,
Farnham,
Surrey
GU9 8TH
England
[protected]@gmail.com
Data Compliance Department
duckduckgo.com
4th May 2019
Dear Sirs
RE: Personal Data Removal from Ask Search Engine - Websites and Photograph Data sites listed below
I attach a list of websites containing personal data which have come to light and require deleting as they are in breach of First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Data Principles set out in the Data Protection Act 2018as weel as being in breach of the EU Generalal Data Protection Regulations. Therefore under Section 47 of the Data Protection Act 2018 and Article 17 of the General Data Protection Regulations 2018 they must be deleted and no longer be shown.
I have written to the individual sites but they have not had the courtesy to reply.
All the website and photo URL's showing on duckduckgo.com requiring deletion are as follows:
duckduckgo.com Website and photo URL's in need of Deletion/Removal
Getty Images - Implies guilt when when a unanimous not guilty verdict proved otherwise
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/conn-farrell-leaves-southwark-crown-court-in-south-london-news-photo/89577143
The Guardian - Implies guilt when when a unanimous not guilty verdict proved otherwise
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jun/08/trio-sell-ritz-hotel-scam-court
Company Director Check - Inaccurate Information
https://www.companydirectorcheck.com/conn-finnian-farrell-3
I look forward to receiving your confirmation of the deletion/removal to avoid my having to refer the matter to the Office of the Information Commissioner.
Yours faithfully
Conn Farrell
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