Reviews for DuckDuckGo Search & Tracker Protection
DuckDuckGo Search & Tracker Protection by DuckDuckGo
2,302 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13416650, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12347413, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13061300, 7 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13681946, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by marcelo alfaro, 7 years agoi just like not to be follow around the web :) seeing the same shoes ads every time i search for something in the web is boring, tiresome and frankly shows laziness from the advertiser... the ads are poor because of the track system i think... if they want to sell us something at least take some risks with the ads... be more creative! don't you think?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13670248, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by IzNoGud78, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DOWL, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13658260, 7 years agoIt would be helpful if this plugin could be configured to not run on certain domains. For example, as a web developer/marketer, I'm often in Google Analytics, but the GA site doesn't work when this plugin is running.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the review and comment about not running on specific domains. This feature is already available by clicking the extension's icon in the browser bar, and toggling the "Site Privacy Protection" option. Perhaps it's not clear enough, however, so we'll look into how we can improve this. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13657994, 7 years agoEin sehr gutes vertrauenswuerdiges Programm. Allerdings sollte / kann die Arbeitsgechwindigkeit noch gesteigert werden.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gina Robertshaw, 7 years agoI've been using Duck Duck Go for a long time, and ANY search engine (or website for that matter) that helps protect my identity is a necessity on my list. Fortunately, I haven't had any of the problems using Duck Duck Go that a few people reported (but noticed you corrected in connection with the websites involved). I must say that I disagree with the person who said blocking advertising trackers and ads destroys media revenues and forces businesses to become even more invasive. Most of us check out at least one--but usually more--websites in search engine results--so we'll definitely see ads on the websites we visit. Also, even before using Duck Duck Go, whenever I searched for something I almost never looked at ads on a "search results page" anyway--I only looked at the results for the information I was searching for. I also think if most businesses behaved in an upright manner by not allowing third party tracking, we wouldn't have to be so afraid of being tracked; but as it is, we do have to be concerned about this. One additional point...most people I know also use additional protection like No Script and/or other similar apps, which also helps protect our identity. So I'll keep using my Duck Duck Go!!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13620577, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13618961, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Faculty Row Spam, 7 years agoThis add-on is really valuable to hide your destination when you searching anything on search engine,like it alot
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13608967, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13337649, 7 years agoStates it blocks advertising trackers but actually outright blocks many ads. This destroys media revenues and forces businesses to become even more invasive.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13599522, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by PatheticCockroach, 7 years agoI had this installed in a bunch of my old Firefox profiles so I eventually checked it out before removing it.
It's probably an interesting extension for the privacy-illiterates who can't be bothered to install more than one privacy-related extension and couldn't care less about what happens under the hood. But its incredibly minimalist interface makes it very hard to understand what it really does, so I feel much better protected using my usual Ghostery + uBlock + HTTPS Everywhere + Smart Referer + ScripSafe.
Of course, I'm keeping DDG as my default search engine though ^^
@previous review author: Startpage still uses Google under the hood (it's basically an "anonymous" proxy towards Google), so IMHO DDG is way better as it doesn't feed Google data. Startpage can still be interesting when you really really want to use Google but still want it to be slightly more private than the normal way of using it. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13589155, 7 years ago