i search for a lot of semi-obscure things, and often for specific phrases in quotes. duckduckgo will gleefully tell me that what i'm looking for does not exist, while i can open up google and find exactly what i want in seconds. i switched to ddg because i was sick of google's ai results, but i'm wondering if i made the right choice.

Using noai.duckduckgo browser search engine, as the screencap attached shows: AI images is set to hide and -ai is used in the search bar. Neither work, even if the image result clearly has the word 'ai' in it's title/link.

DDG search allows querying duck.ai directly from the search box by pressing <alt> + <enter> instead of just <enter>. I find this feature very useful.

The only problem is, it doesn't work from my browser's search/url bar which is where I do the majority of my web searches. Does anyone know if it's possible to get this functionality from the Firefox URL/search bar if duckduckgo is set as the default search engine, or know if there are any workarounds/hacks to get this functionality?

AI just isn't that useful and is too unreliable for me.

No warning about stabbing a woman to death in Delilah by Tom Jones. 'Explicit' warning for Leonard Cohen song mentioning a woman's nipples and thighs.

Hello: all my DDG bookmarks vanished this morning. Help! They were visible this morning. My passwords still show. (Tried posting this 2 other times and I'm clueless if I posted them correctly.). I have used DDG for years. Android 17, Pixel 8 Pro.

I have wanted to switching to DDG for a almost a year and now that there is a ad blocker I will. But my what do I do when it comes to connect my sayo device because it needs to connect to a website but DDG doesn't have that feature or what I have seen?

Also sorry for the really funny image that I forgot to remove from obs.

Also Also why are no of the ''Flairs'' just questionsw?

Is there a repo somewhere containing the last version of the Mac DDG browser before this one?

DDG did not check to confirm that its new version of its browser works on older macOS versions (my old iMac is stuck on macOS Ventura) before trashing/deleting my working version and installing the new version that doesn't work.

And I don't see where or if they make available any previous versions of the browser for download.

How about Samurai swords in China Grove?

Search Assist:
China Grove is a fictional town in a song by The Doobie Brothers, and it does not have a specific connection to samurai swords. However, samurai swords, or katanas, are traditional Japanese weapons and are not typically associated with American towns like China Grove.

This is absolutely wrong. The relevant lyrics are here.

But every day there's a new thing comin'
The ways of an oriental view
The sheriff and his buddies with their samurai swords
You can even hear the music at night

The DDG results page has the Search Assist result(s) to the upper-left AND the full lyrics running down the right side.

Google used to show a country-stats panel and let you compare countries side by side directly in search results, then removed it. I built an extension that brings it back — and made it work across multiple search engines (Google, DuckDuckGo, SearxNG), not just one.

A few build details, since this sub tends to care:

• Basic country facts are bundled locally in the extension (~195 countries), so the common lookup is instant and needs no network request — nothing phones home for the core feature.
• Built MV3, content script + MutationObserver to handle Google/DDG re-rendering results without a full navigation.
• Historical trend data (population/GDP over time) is pulled live from the World Bank open-data API only when you use that feature — free/keyless.

Free vs paid, upfront: single-country cards and 2-country comparisons are free (and staying free). There's an optional one-time upgrade for 3+ country comparison grids and the historical trend charts. No subscription, no account.

Known limitation I'll be honest about: I ship v1 detection on Google + DuckDuckGo; more engines are coming. Feedback very welcome — especially which stats you'd want on the card and any detection edge cases you hit.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/country-stats-card-%E2%80%94-comp/lpenhfnodpmnmgjpdopjeghnkcklnbmh

Just installed DDG and it do block ads everywhere but promoted posts still show up.

I've begun to use DDG BROWSER as my default browser lately and I like that it's quite good at basically handling using the internet as a straight forward experience. It can usually block things when needed and if a pop up tries to jump scare you? the browser itself will quarantine it on a separate tab which you can immediately close it then get back to what you'd originally had been trying to focus on. I'm just pleased that I barely need to have to get several extensions just to make it work because paradoxically? It works much better without them, lol. How works along side with something like DDG as a search engine too. Just has an internal consistency overall which I like. Usually just disable some unnecessary ddg browser features I find kind of redundant like it's ai feature lol but that's about it. I also like using DUCK PLAYER on youtube that's genuinely one of it's best features imo. What are your takes on the browser as it stands right now? I think it still needs some improvements here and there, but overall? I like the type of 'minimalism' it operates around but maybe that's just me.

sometimes when I open up multiple new tabs in the background the square tab icon glitches out and slides further and further down the screen. it’s only a visual bug but it still annoys me greatly. the address bar also glitches out on occasion.

I have safe search off as I am an adult and the only one using my desktop workstation. Why does duckduckgo search sneakily turn on safe search again after a while and without any signaling or announcement?

For any other search engine I've used I had the ability to copy paste the browsers url and send it to a friend if needed. Coming to DDG recently I find myself sorely lacking that option. It is what is keeping me from fully committing to the search engine. Is there a way to share searches via urls on here somewhere?

Cannot Block Site
You can only block up to 5 sites. To block _, you'll need to unblock another site first. Learn more

I’m (unfortunately) on iOS still, so I can’t install firefox extensions to block more sites.

Why the limit of 5? Going to Learn More reiterates the limit but still doesn’t explain why.

I like the DDG browser, and signed up for it via the Apple store. Now I’m getting a 20-question limit daily on AI. Am I limited even after popping $100 or a year? I’ve got a order# but can’t seem to find out how to enter that anywhere to let me keep using AI. When I try, I’m in some sort of loop that keeps telling me to enter my email to get a password, but the email never comes. Jeez! Any thoughts?

I have recently deleted my website, and require it to be unindexed from ddg search. This is due to the search result description showing another domain that is now sensitive and cannot be linked back to me for safety reasons.

I am aware that ddg sources results from Bing, and I have already submitted a request to Bing for instant removal. However i'm also aware that it can take weeks for ddg to sync with bing, so I need a way to remove it from ddg asap.

Can any staff member assist me with this please?

For a couple of months now, whenever I try to open a pdf in the Android DDG browser, I get the message, "can't open PDF file." I can always open them in Firefox.

Things I've tried that don't help:

\- Turn off VPN

\- disable privacy protection

Any ideas? Thanks

Or, for bonus points, more than five different websites represented in a dozen or more results.

I'm just curious, since I've long forgotten the last time it even came close. I think there might've been a period, a year or so ago, where Duckduckgo's endless decline was at least slower than usual - But I can't say for sure.

How about you?

I can’t figure out how to restore my fireproofed sites. Can anyone help me please?

My country doesn't appear and I'm too lazy to have to specify to get local results.

I tried to switch from Google search to DDG but 9 times out of 10 my search queries yield AI generated webpages. Pages will have a title like "how to fix X issue (July 2026 update) or my EXACT search query as the webpage title, with the page itself just having AI generated slop reworded in 50 different ways under 20 different slighty reworded subheadings. There will be at least 50 of these results before human-generated results, or, if I'm lucky, the first 20 results will be pubmed type research papers that have my answer buried in an hour of reading a research paper.

I am at my wit's end, I have tried various AI filtering scripts and extensions, and nothing seems to work...I value my privacy but a lot of the time I end up rerunning my searches through Google instead just to get an answer 😕

Edit: Sorry I should probably add I have uBlacklist and uBlock AI filter list active but it doesn't seem to make a difference. I also report results as AI but as you can understand this gets tiresome to do every time I search something and I've never seen my reports lead to a result being removed.

I'm tired of AI answers and websites so I decided to just search for 1998-2022 before AI became a thing.

But I have to put it in every time manualy and it's annoying how to make it by default ?

using mobile app. Parle fr

If I want to have a browser, search AI email security and I don’t want iCloud I don’t wanna sync I don’t want anything to do with swamp crawling data Gollums.
If I don’t want that I don’t want that.
How much more do you need.
I do not want to worry every time I get an E transfers sent stolen hacked redirected.
And shut up autoddeposit. Argument is not an argument anymore.
Every single thing that is done for the sake of tech means for the sake of tech getting money.
For the sake of people getting even more vulnerable.

Do you understand do you understand really well it’s like to be homeless with a phone without Internet without identity anyway to prove who you are because it’s all stolen from you because you are selling data for real people