DuckDuckGo
Reviews and Complaints

GOOGLE keeps invading my FIREFOX internet space with ads for their Google sponsored TOTAL AD BLOCK. I have protested many, many tomes on their FB page to no avail. Again today I posted: AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AD NAUSEUM! GET YOUR F'N GOOGLE SPONSORED AD FOR TOTAL AD BLOCK OFF MY INTERNET SPACE! THE O.N.L.Y AD I GET IS YOURS! DUCKDUCKGO BLOCKS EVERYTHING ELSE, AND HAS FOR YEARS. YOU REALLY THINK YOU OWN OUR INTERNET SPACE. NOT! GET THE F'K OUT OF MY FIREFOX SPACE NOW!
Sorry for the language but after protesting on their FB page over and over for weeks, I'm fed up!
PLEASE HELP!

Please provide the steps to change the default DuckDuckGo mapping search result from Apple Maps to Google Maps. It's my choice, not yours, to make. You've assumed I am happy with the choice that you made for your default mapping service and I do respect your privilege to do so. You must, however, allow for users like myself to choose their own preferences and you're not doing that with Maps. If workaround steps are possible, then I'll use them to reset to Google Maps and thank you for your response. If DDG does not permit users to choose their own map service provider, then you will lose me as a customer. I am aware that Google collects and resells data from its software users and I accept that. I don't like it either, however, the benefits outweigh the offense of lost privacy. Please advise.

I have gotten some posts suggesting that I should follow the the "Top" at Goodreads but I didn't do that in the past. I just wrote about one book "Hið helga orð" which concerns literacy and pornography crime.
It seems like some "info power pervert "is behind this that does whatever he pleases and takes advents of a person's personal information. I am not saying it is the "Top" of Good reads but some kind of information engineer that lacks work ethics. Delete this threat please thank you.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/89543575-eyr-n-r-s-rnad-ttir

I applied with your company as a white educated male with a copious of experience and I didn't even get a second interview.
So, I applied as a black female with no education and limited experience. I even spelled words wrong. I got a second interview.
Hmmmm?
Is this a prime example of your company's discrimination?
I'm Not interested in playing these games
In fact, I'm exposing you on every social media site available.
You claim to provide privacy while discriminating against white people? I see this as a lack of honesty and integrity.

It would be l"very" helpful to a "Show Reader View" in your browser - it is very helpful when creating a pdf.

Thank you for your prompt attention to my suggestion to improve use ability of your fantastic web browser. We already use DDG search engine on another browser platform.

I look forward to your information technology departments employees working to add this feature to DDG web browser.

If you are searching anything for your kids, forget about it! I am so sick and tired of finding porn no matter what I look up. If your search has a woman's name, there will be disgusting endless images of naked women and even worse website titles. I have ptsd and am a narcissistic abuse survivor, I don't need this garbage. My last search was Frida, by the way.
It seriously has made me hopeless there is any man out there who isn't porn obsessed. I'll take Google for more accuracy and less trash at this point, cons regardless!

Have used the search engine for years just found out about your racist hiring practices Lauren Chen video. Frankly it's a poor search engine but now I have no need to stay. You guys stink, do you not realise you are hurting real people and as usual lefties claiming the moral high ground

I love using DuckDuckGo, but there are a few things you could improve.
1. Lately, you generally have not been getting anywhere close to the proper suggestions for queries, requiring me to go to Google for the answer anyway.
2. Just because you track my location, doesn't mean that's where I am. You should stop doing that. I often use a VPN for the UK and the search results you provide are not always accurate for America where I am physically located.
3. Most people do not like having Parental Controls for Adult Content turned on by default. You should stop doing that.
If you want to be more like Google without the Trackers, DON't Track ANYTHING having to do with your users.
Don't CENSOR content based on what YOU think people should be looking at.
Don't make the answer so generalized they have no relevance to the question asked.

Keep getting this with iconical app the operation couldn't be completed. (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error 303.) when trying to localhost paste and go...This just started after setting ddg as default browser on ipad 5 ios 14.8...Checked the web but no firm answer how to correct it. I believe it could be a privacy issue and apple or ddg may be able to get it changed.. Thanks, Hugh

You give no place to actually contact or provide help so I am posting here. That in itself I guess is a complaint that DuckDuckGo solicits for funds but offers no means of customer support.
So the problem is: I had DuckDuckGo installed as my default homepage. My problem when this was installed is that "suddenly" the homepage for DuckDuckGo is now fully devoted to Hillary Clinton! I do not want to be looking at this woman everytime I open my computer! No one can seem to help me find where I can change my home screen to have a search bar like Google does. What is DuckDuckGo advocating? If this can't be changed I will have someone help me find a way to stay with Google, at least they aren't forcing me to look at content I want to avoid.

[In the end I found this isn't duckduckgo either, ugh!]

Duckduckgo 6 stars! OUTSIDE companies pretending to be ddg for contact or downloads 0 STARS!

I'm trying to download ddg browser and engine BUT I'm only able to go through other sites NOT ddg. Some even give pop up adds! This goes to show. YOUR doing what you say- giving privacy and they are trying to put in a back door before it even gets to you. This is OUTRAGEOUS, the internet's abuse of privacy! Please email instructions to download for windows 7 PC browser and search engine download to [protected]@gmail.com feel free to call or text
[protected]. Your the most trusted by those that know whats going on. Keep up the great work! Others are trying but failing to get the REAL ddg- don't let them railroad you. Find a way to make sure others can get the real download from YOU AND ONLY YOU. FYI my tries that were all blocked were through EDGE. You need to fix the web searches for when people try to get the REAL DDG without all the back doors.

Hi not really a complaint I have been using you guys all year through brave browser..
My business Cairns Windscreens has old info linked to the search and all the calls keep going to the old business owner.

I have had the business for 3 years now, I would just like to know how to get the search updated to my details.

Cairns Windscreens
[protected]
Bathurst drive, Bentley park 4869

Query results are barely relevant & peripheral, ostensibly pre-determined, pre-scrubbed, skewed, whitewashed, either with or without filters. Results appear weak, as they are maximally restricted. This is simply evidenced by the results having only peripheral relevance to short, specific, non-obfuscatory or ambiguous queries. Queries regarding confrontational information associated with powerful corporate or individual entities is notably weak or absent, even though strong in recent legitimate press reports, & in public response.
I am betting that DuckDuckGo.com sells a negativity-proofing immunity guarantee to shield paying corporate entities, politicians, right wing media propaganda machines, etc.
I am sorry that this search engine is a failure both at maintaining my privacy & bringing me results relevant to my queries.

When I attempt to book a flight I can get to the homepage. But when I put in the flights I wish to take and click to go to the next step and see those flights available, I recieve a message Access Denied.

I would kindly like to point out to Duck Duck go program makers that when searching propaganda comes up that is spread by the Chinese Communist Party. I am a Falun Dafa Practitioner, and I frequently type in Falun to quickly access Falun Gong or Falun Dafa websites. I'm constantly offended by the option of choice that comes up when I type in the word Falun. That offensive choice is Falun Gong Cult. Falun Gong is the exercise and meditation that we practice regularly and Falun Dafa is the whole practice, reading from teachings from the founder and sharing experience and also the excercise and meditation. There is no such thing or group as Falun Gong Cult. The people who decide to practice Falun Dafa keep their own thoughts and ideas, they keep their own personality and every Falun Dafa practitioner thinks for themselves. We come together to share our experience in practising Falun Dafa. We also expose crimes towards Chinese Falun Dafa Practitioners whom are currently being persecuted and killed for their belief in heaven, Gods, universal principles Truth Compassion and tolerance and also faith in the Founder of Falun Dafa and faith in the practice Falun Dafa. By practising Falun Dafa my health and life has improved 100%. It is sad and cruel that the Chinese Communist Party are persecuting good people by locking innocent people up in Labour camps and jails. The Chinese Communist Government has wrongly accused Falun Dafa as being a cult. The Chinese Communist Government lies and covers up its human rights violations.
I live in society and contribute to my local area as a citizen. I practice Falun Dafa on my own or with a group, the choice is mine. I keep my own thinking. Falun Gong or Falun Dafa is not a cult. I hope you can remove the Falun Gong Cult option from your search when people type in Falun Gong or Falun Dafa. Also be aware all writings about Falun Gong or Falun Dafa being a cult are lies and propaganda with the source of information would come from the Chinese Communist Party. I hope changes are made or I will have to use another service.

7/9/2021
Unbelievable! What world do we live in today that everything has to be perverted. Children are among the many that use the internet and this is the crap that is being fed to them.

I assure you, this is exactly what was happening in Germany back in Hitler's time and he saw that the Jews were responsible for this blatant attempt to destroy the morality of his country. Pornography was rampant in Germany and LGBTQ was the rage in his time. Hitler was determined to root out the filthy Jew out of his country for this fact and also they were responsible for crashing their economy to purposely gobble up everything at pennies on the dollar. This is what happened to the USA during the Great Depression of 1929, the Jew crashed the stock market and banks everywhere went belly up. The Jews scooped 'em up for next to nothing — classic Jewishness.

I've been loyal to duckduckgo, but I must find a more trustworthy search engine. You Jews can have each other in Hell. I, nor my family, need any part of this filth — you can have it all.

I typed "ctcfamily.com/wonderfully-made" in your search engine and every time it came up with three or four porn sites and the then below sites that had "Wonderfully Made" in them but not a link to the site I was looking for. When I typed https://www.ctcfamily.com/wonderfully-made it came up. This is extremely disturbing. Is your first goal to lead people to porn?

My device has not got the duck duck go app installed yet my browser that is brave browser is redirecting to duck duck go browser. I deleted duck duck go off my device weeks ago so why is it still installed?

I have been running Duck Duck Go for a couple of years and like it BUT I am getting annoyed at its inability to maintain preferences. In particular I do not want my home screen cluttered up with advertisements for your service.
Every time I reset the preferences things are fine for two or three weeks - then the ads, etc come back. This is not just one computer - it happened on my iMac and MacBook Air.
If this does not get stabilised pretty soon I will no doubt drift back to Google, or more likely, MadAsAFish.

When wanting to open a website, it always states not available
Deleted the app, reloaded it and it still doesn't work