Reviews for DuckDuckGo Search & Tracker Protection
DuckDuckGo Search & Tracker Protection by DuckDuckGo
Review by Sans Undertale
Rated 5 out of 5
by Sans Undertale, 4 years agoSo.....It would appear that this is getting reviewed bombed by right-wing cultists that expected this search engine to cater exclusive to Putin's political agenda?
Lol.
This isn't even the Search Engine. It's a Tracker Blocker built by the DDG team. This extension itself censors NOTHING, and the search engine itself is only "censoring" insofar that it dropped Yandex (Russian Search Engine) from it's regex filter.
"Google Clone"? Lol. Google tracks everything you search and personalizes search results to monetize you and put you in Filter Bubbles. That's DDG's real strength. It doesn't track users, it doesn't filter users, it only monetizes users through Contextual Advertising, and all of this is and was true before and after the Yandex debacle.
It's laughable how ignorant and stupid people who use FIREFOX of all browsers truly are. It's no surprise that Mozilla has been desperately trying to dumb down the browser if users can't even tell the difference between a search engine and a extension.
I don't even use this extension for Tracker blocking. I've been using uBlock ever since the Firefox Android update that blocks free use of extensions (cEnSoRsHiP!?!?!?!). Even so, I still use the search engine, and both the engine and this extension are still excellent ways to preserve privacy.
If ya'll still wanna get pandered by Brave/Yandex/Google, be my guest. I've been using DDG since 2019, and frankly I have no reason to switch.
Lol.
This isn't even the Search Engine. It's a Tracker Blocker built by the DDG team. This extension itself censors NOTHING, and the search engine itself is only "censoring" insofar that it dropped Yandex (Russian Search Engine) from it's regex filter.
"Google Clone"? Lol. Google tracks everything you search and personalizes search results to monetize you and put you in Filter Bubbles. That's DDG's real strength. It doesn't track users, it doesn't filter users, it only monetizes users through Contextual Advertising, and all of this is and was true before and after the Yandex debacle.
It's laughable how ignorant and stupid people who use FIREFOX of all browsers truly are. It's no surprise that Mozilla has been desperately trying to dumb down the browser if users can't even tell the difference between a search engine and a extension.
I don't even use this extension for Tracker blocking. I've been using uBlock ever since the Firefox Android update that blocks free use of extensions (cEnSoRsHiP!?!?!?!). Even so, I still use the search engine, and both the engine and this extension are still excellent ways to preserve privacy.
If ya'll still wanna get pandered by Brave/Yandex/Google, be my guest. I've been using DDG since 2019, and frankly I have no reason to switch.
2,358 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17017458, 21 days agoCon l'estensione attiva non mi fa superare la verica captcha di Facebook,
in pratica mi da la verifica captcha positiva ma mi rimanda al login e questo
si ripete molte volte senza consentirmi l'accesso a Facebook.
Il problema si è presentato da 2 massimo 3 settimane, prima non avevo
nessun problema ad accedere.
Disattivando l'estensione supero positivamente la verifica captcha e posso
accedere a Facebook.
Ho aperto anche un Topic nel Forum Mozilla Italia dal titolo:
" Malfunzionamento di Firefox all'accesso in Facebook con il captcha?"
I miei dati attuali: Win 10, Firefox 152.0.1 e DuckDuckGo Search & Tracker Protection
v. 2026.5.22. - Rated 5 out of 5by Jamie, a month agoVery nice job, great to prevent Google, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Google, and Google from tracking. (Makes a great pair with Ghostery.)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Machu, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by What???, 2 months agoI see no point to this since we have uBlock that's not restricted like on Chrome browsers. Adding AI only makes this worse.
Overall, I'm not happy with FF in 2026 and I understand Mozilla is going to redesign/refresh FF to (try) to win users back. It sits at the bottom of browsers for desktops — then again, desktop browser use is on a major decline anyways. - Rated 5 out of 5by AlgoStorm, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by American chestnut, 2 months ago"Optional" AI summary is on by default. They think changing your search to a "noai" domain is a suitable work around. No it's not, we should not have disinfo brainrot on by default.
- Rated 5 out of 5by OldSoul, 2 months agoThis addon ALLOW you to add websites to exceptions. Commenters who claim otherwise are either lying or bots.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19902880, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19885048, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19882925, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ArbiterRegnant, 4 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Pax Ahimsa Gethen, 4 months agoI didn't even realize I had this extension until I was troubleshooting not being able to see the comments section on a site I frequent, a problem that just started a couple weeks ago. When I disabled the extension, I could see the comments section again, but a lot of ads started appearing on other sites I visit that apparently had been hidden by this extension.
I tried to explain this to someone at the site with the comments section, but they weren't very helpful. So for now I'm just toggling the extension off for that site and then back on again for other sites. I wish there were a way to turn this extension off per-site as there is with Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection. - Rated 5 out of 5by Rifat, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MrMostly, 4 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18759100, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by isaacORP, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Regina, 5 months agoTook me a bit getting used to. But once i learned about "Filter Bubbles" in some other search engines, I paid more attention. Fast and easy for me to use, yes. But above all, I trust DDG with my privacy.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19705516, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19487299, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by elsenfox, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by rtd, 7 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Enunciate_Veggie, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19638715, 7 months agoGood so far, recent update on the DuckDuckGo end of things changed some stuff with their AI. Will see how that goes, still 5-stars either way because there it is.