United StatesTired of being tracked online? We can help. DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials comes packed with best-in-class privacy essentials and makes browsing Safari even faster. Block Tracking Cookies — prevent most 3rd-party cookies from tracking you as you browse from site to site. Escape Website Trackers Before They Load - we automatically stop most hidden trackers (3rd-party scripts) from loading, which prevents companies from collecting and using any personal data from these trackers. Our cutting-edge tracker blocking technology – called 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection – goes above and beyond what you get in most popular browsers by default. After you install our extension, you’ll be asked to enable Tracker Blocking and the Privacy Dashboard within Safari. While the extension doesn’t include DuckDuckGo Private Search, it is built into Safari as a default search option. Enabling all three gives you seamless privacy protection. Privacy, simplified. Note about our 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection following DuckDuckGo ad clicks: Our 3rd-Party Tracker Protection goes above and beyond what you get in most popular browsers by default, but we’re constantly working to make it more comprehensive. Currently, if an advertiser wants to detect conversions on their own website for our private DuckDuckGo search ads, our 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection will not stop bat.bing.com requests from loading on the advertiser’s website following DuckDuckGo ad clicks, but those requests are stopped in all other contexts. This is because DuckDuckGo private search advertising is in partnership with Microsoft. As part of that partnership, viewing ads on DuckDuckGo is anonymous and Microsoft has committed to not profile our users’ ad clicks. Read more about this and our Tracking Protections at https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/web-tracking-protections/ You don't need to wait to take back your privacy. Join the millions of people using DuckDuckGo and protect many of your everyday online activities with one app. It's privacy, simplified. More About DuckDuckGo • About Us: https://duckduckgo.com/about/ • Privacy Newsletter: https://duckduckgo.com/newsletter • Privacy Policy: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy/ • Open Source Code: https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-privacy-extension
I need to be done
It was a good thing at first but now i cant figure out how to remove it to have regular safari. Dont download this app. DuckDuckGo please tell me how to remove it off safari
United StatesDisappointing
Due to some of the changes this company has made, I am not sure that I trust or feel comfortable using this app. I will still use the search engine in Safari because it is my only option. I don't like the other choices.
United StatesProblems Abound
My main complaint about DuckDuckGo is that at my place of work, healthcare, IT & S have installed a program that will throughout the day delete all your cache and history. It does not matter which browser you use. Which means all your setting are reset. Clearing the Cache and History cleans out everything, none of your setting will be saved. And our is clwaned out it seems almost hourly. This is not an issue with other browsers. But they get cleared and cleaned also. But their settings are 1 click changes.
United StatesSupposed to block Google pop-ups, but doesn't
News this week is that the DuckDuckGo extension now blocks the "sign in with Google" pop-ups. So installed it, but it isn't blocking them.
United StatesAnother Point
When you're web surfing, you can actually activate a LOT of websites that you don't recognize. The website that you're on can link to those sites, without you're realizing it! So, despite all the cynics, DDG can actually stop these other websites, of which you're totally unaware that you've activated!
United StatesDDG used to be great but NOT anymore - DON'T USE, they've sold out
Recently it's not blocking ANY trackers or Google analytics or FB or any other main data stealing websites or apps. On Safari, I have DDG as my search engine and all preferences set to DDG being my default search engine. Suddenly, when I go to Safari preferences, privacy and hit manage privacy up comes a long list of sites that I have not visited and they are tracking me! I noticed this only a few months ago as in former times there were zero under manage privacy. I wrote to the company back and forth and they lied to me about what was going on. So what exactly does DDG do for us anymore?? My strong suspiction is that they finally sold out to Apple and/or Microsoft but these 3 tech companies all share/barter data anyway.
United StatesCaused too many problems!
I'm using Monterey 12.6. I downloaded and installed this with no concerns because I've used the Duck Duck Go search engine in the past. I noticed over the last couple months that Safari started acting very strangely. I have it set w/ a home page and also have the option checked to open w/ the last tabs that existed when I closed it down. A couple months ago, I noticed that I might close it w/ 12 tabs and when I reopened it I had 40 tabs. I'd close the excess ones and continue work. There would be times when I'd close it w/ 30 tabs and reopen it and it would have 90 tabs. Holy cow! What the heck's happening? 1 day I noticed that it had 90 tabs, and I didn't have the time to close all of them. so I minimized Safari and did some other work. When I clicked on Safari again, the # of tabs was down to 40. Huh! I hadn't done anything. Where did the excess tabs go. One time I opened Safari and had over 400 tabs! Finally, I took my mac into Apple and was able to easily demonstrate what I was talking about. The lady helping me looked at several things, and noticed that I had the Duck Duck Go extension and asked what it was for. I explained, and as a test, we deleted it. Boom! Safari started working as expected and has since. I don't know what Duck Duck Go was doing, but it's certainly not worth what I experienced!
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We've expanded our 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection to block more tracking requests. We also updated the Privacy Dashboard — you can now see additional information about which 3rd-party requests were blocked from loading, which other 3rd-party requests loaded, and the reasons for both when available.
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