DuckDuckGo
reviews and complaints

3 or 4 times in recent weeks, transactions have failed at the payment stage. The first time it happened, I raised a dispute through the credit card company, which it turns out was tough on the seller, though things were resolved.

I’ve managed to make all the transactions using Safari, with no issue, so the indications are that DDG has a glitch.

I changed to duckduckgo to get unfiltered searches (that includes Russian propaganda). I don't want my searches filtered/censored/ordered based on politics or ideology. I might as well go back to Google and fight the 'disinformation' police there. Downranking Russia related sites started on March 9, 2022. I do not want my search results downranked based on ideology.

I changed to duckduckgo to get UNFILTERED searches and that includes Russian propaganda. You're as bad as Google once you start censoring and filtering searches. I might as well go back to Google and fight the phony mis-information police there.

I came to Duck Duck Go specifically to escape the censorship of Google and Big Tech companies. I will give this a week or two for you to STOP injecting bias into your product. If you don’t reverse the down ranking of ANY sites, I will never use your products again. I mine as well go back to Google if this is where you take this.

I do not need an overlord deciding what is truth and what is propaganda. It is a slippery slope. It will be the reason you become irrelevant. Good luck. The clock is ticking.

I used duckduckgo on iphone that has a page with a sound track I played on a site. I select the flame to close all tabs and erase any trail.

Now on the control window, slide up from the bottom, the audio track is still playable with its name visable from the erased duckduckgo page. Why didn't it erase the audio track? It should erase any trail.

I have used DuckDuckGo for years but now after finding out they are supporting censorship I will be looking for a new search engine.

I had many tabs open on my Android device and was switching back and forth between them. Unknowingly, I must've accidentally touched the fire button and lost all my research...which had been ongoing for several weeks.

Can you help me? If I were a criminal and the FBI wanted my search history, you'd be able to provide it, right?

Is there any way to recover those tabs?

Is there any way to remove the fire tab?

U have left ur free speech platform. U were the best free speech site but now u have sold out. I guess I’m done with duck duck go. So sad, u were a wonderful company but u have sold out ur customers

I am extremely disappointed in your company's decision to control search information. This is not protection, this is violating the first amendment. I left Google for this same reason. DDG has had a massive increase in customers because we want to see all stories to make the correct decision. Knowing all sides of a story helps to make an informed decision. What's next, ending your claims of privacy? Be different. Be better. Don't give into the communism takeover.

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.