DuckDuckGo
Reviews and Complaints

Absolutely disgusted with DuckDuckGo's sensoring of information. As a free world, it is absolutely paramount for people to be able to make up their own minds from all available information. Sensoring information opens the possibility for tyranny. I will not be using DuckDuckGo again.

I will no longer be using DuckDuckGo. If I want a search engine that takes sides politically by censoring its search engine results so that only one side of an issue shows up in its SERPs, I may as well go back to Google or Bing.

Besides the privacy issue, which we can get from other privacy search engines, one of the selling points of DuckDuckGo was its promise of unbiased results.

Today, it might be Ukraine. What will it be tomorrow?

I want to make a complaint to the CEO. How dare he censor anything. despicable, I am telling everyone I know to ditch this outfit.

if you censor, you are probably selling info on each person as well... good grief, just another anti-American sell out, no patriotism, no common sense and sure wonder how much the ceo was paid to start censoring?

good bye and good riddance- also I see your little check the box and accept our so called privacy is more BS

I am terribly disappointed in your company's decision to control search information by altering your algorithm to begin down ranking sources that promote Russian "misinformation." We don't need your "protection". We can make our own informed decisions about the validity of the information a search produces. This is nothing more than DDG putting it's finger on the scale of their search results. This calls into question your whole operation. With this type of Big Brother control, it especially casts doubt on your claims of privacy for users. If I wanted a search engine with this type of limitation, I would have stayed with google. Go woke... go broke.

You stand accused of censorship of the free internet. Your search engine will lose everyone that it has advertised to gain over the past 8 years if you do no publically apologize, and cease this new policy immediately. Fall on your sword, and free the internet. provide good neutral search capabilities and do not bow to anyone.

I joined Duck Duck go to stop the censorship of searches.

Now you, as an entity have begun "down grading" and weighing searches, which makes you NO BETTER THAN GOOGLE!

Censorship LEADS to misinformation when one group decides what is "information". In this case, Russia is doing the bidding of freedom in the world as they are fighting against the implementation of the great reset and the new world order.

Ukraine is a hotbed of corruption and their leader was placed in his position by the united states, he like Biden is a puppet.

You, as a corporation are betraying your original mission goal and literally are now, no better than google in my opinion for doing this.

People are adults and can process information without your help in deciding "which information they get to see". Again, this makes you no better than google and if I DON"T find that you have stopped this action, I will be deleting your service from my browser.

p.s. I'm not alone. for every email you get, there are probably 100,000 users NOT contacting you but have the same thoughts... actions like this could be the demise of your company in a soon-to-be free-again America.

sad day. Who paid you to monitor and make decisions on what i can see and believe or not. DuckDuckgo has finally become the arm of the United States Government. Very Sad day. It is only down hill from here. I will not support any page that has DuckDuckgo advertise on it. I will uninstall any apps that support you. I am a well know speaker. I will be sure to talk how you are a government agent now. Telling me what I need to believe. Move along these aren't the droids you are looking for. Will echo in my head everytime I see your name. You crossed over to the darkside. You are communist DuckDuckgo

Are you REALLY going there? I guess we are all too stupid to decide for ourselves what to believe, right?

We will always have alternatives, Google, FB, DDG, & the rest. ALWAYS.

If you do, I'm gone from DDG too!

We chose your company because you promised not only our privacy but no censorship. Today you let us down. Do you people actually believe WE don't know the difference in disinformation Russian or otherwise? You jumped down that rabbit hole with the insane! I am removing your product from my phones and my computers! People are not idiots ( well some are, but we know who they are and have no issue in saying so) but Im sick of people telling me what I can read or watch and what I can not!

While I have loved DuckDuckGo to 5 minutes ago, I would urge them to tell the CIA or whoever has pressured them to edit free speech. Just give us the information, and let US decide with all the information we can gather decide our outcomes. We have already seen every Mainstream media mouthpiece tell us about what they want us to see happening in Ukraine, and we have seen very little about the Head of the CIA absolutely verify the US has 26 illegal biolabs in Ukraine doing EXACTLY what Russia has stated. We can PLAINLY see what is really happening so I would hope you will go back to your open policy. We do not even know if you haven't already been editing information anyways. Russia has done less destruction than the US has in the last 25+ years minus Trump. Russia has watched the deep state overthrow of the United States and is acting against weak fools like you. To be part of the deep state bad actors you have sealed your own future destruction and will go the way of AOL. We see thru the news shenanigans and lies, and failure to report. Free press my [censored]. WWG1WGA still applies. God wins

I’m disappointed you turned out no better than Google. I will not use your services as soon as I find another option.

You are now censoring information. You were supposed to be an "Open Source" of information, and I was free to decide for myself it's source. You have violated your own standard. A standard you based your reputation on, that reputation now is no better than google or facebook.

You lost my business today.

You sensor

search results like others are doing. I just removed youre app.

I will do my research and find a search engine even if if I have to purchase it .

You lost many users because you did that and am sure you will loose many more . I'm now going to share the YouTube video to everyone on my list and to YouTube like many others I'm sure have done and are going to do.

Duckduck's "down ranking" of "Russian disinformation" is a really bad move.

I can go to google for that kind of crap.

How about "American disinformation", "British disinformation"?

There is plenty of disinformation out there on any topic you might imagine

Who decides what is disinformation?

I want to make that decision on my own.

I DO NOT WANT DUCKDUCK TO GUIDE MY THINKING!

I do want a public statement by Duckduck saying that your search engine will be and remain unbiased.

I just found out you guys are being loyal to your word and what you advertised when starting up. You shouldn't be sensoring or adjusting what you think is best for people to see or adjusting your search engine to do so. Bottom line don't be a [censored]ing fake phony communist company hold true to what you ran on from the start or you can get lost like google! Hold the American value or ur a communist too

Hi DuckDuckGo

I read about your censoring of information regarding Russia.

Censorship is shameful and wrong.

I'm looking for a new search engine now, as DuckDuckGo is obviously compromised.

Good riddance

if you continue down the path of censorship in search results, i will be forced to find another browser..it was google censorship that brought me to you. Please don't go the way of censorship to appease TPTB

Really? You too?!? Why are you deciding what I can see and not see? The best thing about DDGo, is that you didn't appear to censor.

You don't get to decide what information is good or bad for me.

I will dump your program off all my family computers, phones, etc. and we will go back to Google.

At least with Google we know they're censoring so I take their info/results with a grain of salt.

I do realize that my leaving will not adversely affect your company, but what a shame that you've fallen into the woke bs.

Shame on Duck Duck. Bad decision on censoring content. Uncensored, private searching is why people use it. Why do you think this is good in any way for your company? Jump on the censorship bandwagon to signal your virtuosity? People are using your products to get away from that crap. I have lost faith in your business. I am currently looking for alternatives. I'm sure many more people are also.

I read the press release / comments from the CEO in regards to down ranking. There is no down ranking in the 1st amendment. Over last 3 years, I (small business owner) have installed duck duck go in home, office (3 computers), and 4 phones in total to escape Google.

If there is not a reversal in the next several business days - I will go back to google for simple reason that their engine runs smoother ...something I put up with because of your "privacy and marketing as anti-google" If your going to manipulate search results - what's the point?