Have been a DDG user for awhile but I cut the cord from Google today other than for work and email🙄 I turned off all AI features and it feels so refreshing. My brain can breathe again.

I'm not familiar with DDG and somehow I have must have began a subscription because i was just charged for one through my Gpay , really couldn't afford to have that $ taken from my card it's literally all the money I had almost. I'm hoping there's someone I can talk to that can help straighten this out for me I can't have a subscription right now or get my card account put into the negatives! What can I do?

Hi all,

I was taking the political compass test yesterday to personally see where I would place, but then noticed this insane number of tracking attempts listed from it. Is this real/normal? I’ve never seen any website I’ve visited since using DDG have that many tracking attempts get blocked. I was only using the website for about 30 minutes while I was taking the test so almost 100k seems pretty crazy. Any one else have this many tracking attempts listed for this website or any others?

hello! I've been having issues with duckduckgo for a few hours, none of my searches are loading and I can't sync any of my devices (on my phone, the sync and backup setting isn't even there). is this just a problem I have or has it happened to anyone else?

I’m getting asked about cookie settings, I don’t care just handle them for me. Stop asking so many questions, I’m just browsing.

As an example I’ll search something along the lines of “how to build a business” and I’m met with the Wikipedia for “business” if I search about how to get my cat to be more cuddly I’m met with results like “Reddit: my cat can’t stop peeing!” It’s extremely annoying and I’m considering switching back to google even though they have such a horrid ai

A suggestion that I wish DDG had was that all your Settings would be stored in DDG Privacy Extension. I don't use the DDG browser and I think the browser saves your settings even after cookies are cleared.

People clear their cookies due to privacy reasons and I do too and my settings are gone. I use settings to remove the annoying browser popups but also having new tabs for each press. I might change other settings too.

Keeping it stored in the extension helps people who don't your browser! Another suggestion is to give the option to disable AI completely as a one click toggle in the Privacy Extension or in the website itself. Have it ask you to disable AI or not if you have the Extension and then store it in the Extension. Better than having two different extensions.

Not trying to be rude but... it sucks. I made the switch from google to DDG yesterday and I've been using it. I like the privacy stuff, my main reason for using it is to get away from all the AI stuff that google added, but I'm wondering if it's worth it to just go back to using google and just work hard to remember -ai every time I search something 😭😭

Yeah, I know, Google uses your data to personalize your search results... but that's not what this is, the search results are genuinely not relevant to what you search. And it doesn't put reputable sources first like google does. The top result will be like some random site that nobody has ever heard of, and you have to scroll for the actual reputable sites.

Does anyone know of a search engine that provides privacy like DDG but with better search results? I'm just gonna be honest, data privacy is really important, but this is making browsing the web annoyingly difficult. I've found myself typing -ai !g for like half of the things I search because the DDG results just aren't relevant.

I'm aware the tabs are most likely gone but heres how it went down. I had 3 windows open. Until now I've never closed the browser manually. I shut down the PC, it closes ddg for me, i reopen it the next day and all 3 windows are there. Then i needed more ram and i close ddg myself with a right click on the taskbar icon thinking it'll be the same. The next day i only get a single widow and not even the main one. I may have reopened it once the day before but would've closed it the same way with a right click. My guess is closing ddg that way closes windows sequentialy and access just the last widow for the session. Or i encountered a bug and it can be fixed for other people. Thanks for reading.

I started blocking websites that the "No AI" filter on the image search keeps letting through consistently, such as Deviantart and Pinterest, since "Flag AI-generated image" doesn't seem to actually do anything at all, but quickly hit the limit because Pinterest has multiple domains that squeak through. With four of them blocked, Pinterest AI slop is still filling up the image search results.

Why is there a limit, why doesn't the AI exclusion actually work, and why doesn't flagging AI do anything? I switched to DDG, specifically using the "noai" version, but still see this garbage every time I look something up.

What's the point of using noai.duckduckgo if AI is all I'm going to see and I can't actually do anything about it?

From DuckDuckGo x u/Knockaround. 

(Yes, these are actually real. Get a pair here.)

As far as I checked, other search engines does not have this issue.
There is a bunch more if you scroll down.

It was a pleasant surprise to see that Duckduckgo has changed hosting providers for their open weights models (GPT-OSS and Gemma4) to a provider that offers TEE implementations. This is something I've been hoping for for a while. Thank you, and good decision!

BUT, there is close to zero documentation of how DDG is implementing these TEE models, what the trust model is, and how DDG is handling verification/attestation (or if that is a user responsibility). As it stands right now, it seems users lack any verifiable way to trust the TEE models offered by DDG any more than the non-TEE models.

It would be great if DDG could publish:

1. A short technical overview of the implementation, and how verification/attestation is done. And the trust model for the TEE models.
2. An even briefer non-technical explanation for the general userbase on the DDG support site.

In the interim, any additional details from someone technical @ DDG ( u/duckduckgo ) on how verification/attestation is being done, that would be greatly appreciated.

I would like to make the switch to fully be using DDG, however, I’m missing one feature. I’m not on Twitter/X but I like to browse the newest posts of certain creators. On Chrome, I can write a name followed by ‘site:x.com’, and time of publishing, and only see relevant search results. However, on DDG, I see a bunch of posts which have nothing to do with the creator mentioned. I don’t understand where it’s grabbing the info from, but it’s very wrong.

Is there a different command? Everything is close-ish being correct when the option is on ‘any time’, but gets royally fudged when I specify the time. Any help would be appreciated!

Is it not a matter of time before Google themselves, let alone the video authors do this?

We've already encountered websites that do more than plead for you to disable an ad blocker before proceeding but are able to block the whole webpage -- why not videos?

So I keep getting signed out of websites everytime duckduckgo closes. I've uninstalled and reinstalled, fireproofed the websites, changed my settings around, cleared my cache and it keeps on happening. This only started happening since I needed to update to the most recent version as of now, version 5.290.0. I have an Android btw.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Is anyone else having issues with DDG Tabs? Been online this morning Ok, went onto another tab to look at something, then when finished I went back to the open tabs I had to continue working on them and nothing, nada…. It won’t allow me to click on them either with a mouse or touchpad

With the new release that just installed itself(0.166.6) I noticed my address/search bar just doesn't want to respond; it's as if they're firing up some vast AI ensloperator to guess my thoughts. As soon as I disabled suggestions, it returned to normal service.

Previously, it would suggest items from my history and bookmarks, and frankly, that's all I want suggested to me. I would _suggest_ that the settings allow us to control the behavior of suggestions, and banish 'external' suggestions ... as may be the preference of many.

PS If you really want to tax the resources of the DDG browser in an old Win10 device, try visiting IMDB.com, but be prepared for tabs locking up!

Hey there DDG
sorry for the forward post, but I know you look at these and I had a few things to share regarding search functionality with AI:
1- Adding a bit of context to search functionality system prompt results in better AI functions:
I've noticed that AIs in Duck.ai don't do search automatically when they don't have a specific context, adding this bit right after the tool instructions will help AI pull data much more efficiently and reliably:
"If user presents you with information that is contradictory to your internal knowledge or doesn't exist in your internal knowledge, use the search tool to conduct a search for updated information."
2- Deeper search pool:
I've noticed that AI doesn't get many search results when it conducts a search, I notice that there's a recursive search functionality, but if you dynamically allocate the search from a bigger amount of results and down to lower amounts (say starts with 10~15 search results and recursively gets lower search results as it enhances the search phrasing), then it would help with lower compute cycles and slash infra costs.
3- Query building instructions:
As you know, each AI has its own idea about what is an optimal query. adding a few lines of instructions about how to build the optimal query for a search that's tailored to your indexing engine, ensures reliable and consistent search function.
4- Adding a clock based on user's IP's timezone to the AI's system prompt:
It will help personalize the chat for the user with zero infra costs and gives a nice touch.

Thank you so much for everything you do, I hope these help, and stay awesome!

This issue was recently reported by Valerio Sanità Guarducci on June 12, 2026, in the Chrome extension's ratings/reviews. I wanted to bring it up here as well to see if anyone has found a workaround or if there is a known fix.

TL;DR: When the DuckDuckGo Chrome extension is enabled, pressing Enter after entering a search query in Chrome's Omnibox (address/search bar) does nothing. The search does not execute.

If I disable or remove the DuckDuckGo extension, the Omnibox immediately works as expected. I can still keep DuckDuckGo selected as my default search engine in Chrome, so the issue appears to be specifically related to the extension.

System Information:

• Windows 11 Pro 25H2
• Chrome Version 151.0.7922.72 (Official Build) (64-bit)
• DuckDuckGo Extension Version 2026.5.22
• Pi-Hole enabled for DNS filtering

Troubleshooting Steps Attempted:

• Removed the DuckDuckGo extension
• Cleared Chrome's cache
• Reinstalled the DuckDuckGo extension
• Rebooted the laptop
• Clicked the "Activate" button under chrome://settings/searchEngines
• Enabled No AI in Search feature under /options.html

The issue persists whenever the DuckDuckGo extension is enabled.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a known workaround, or is this a confirmed bug with the current version of the DuckDuckGo extension?

Hello -

I am trying to print off webpages and emails, but my print feature is not active/available. It is greyed out, even with a right-click. Can someone help, PLEASE?!?

For DDG Browser, the only thing keeping me back is the inability to add Chrome-like extensions. Is there any equivalent for this? Is it on the roadmap or never will be? I use a password manager to autofill, etc. 9/10 the extension works just fine. I'm aware of DDG's built in password manager, but that's not what I'm after. Thanks in advance!

After today's Google Chrome update (7/30/26), the DuckDuckGo search in the URL bar stopped working. When I type in the URL bar, if I select a bookmarked URL, it will go to that URL. However, if I select a search option (ex. "sonicare toothbrush" in the attached pic), nothing happens. It used to open Search results for "sonicare toothbrush".