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3:16 am EDT

DuckDuckGo no dmca - no contact information - no email address

I searched the whole internet but there is no possibilty to contact duckduckgo! This is illegal and hurts every law in the world! Worst company ever! At least you can contact google but duckduckgo, no way! I need to force a dmca takedown but cannot find any information how to do so? Please help! Thank you!

It cannot be that I have to search for the contact information of a search engine company! Shame on you ducksuckgo! Today you lost one supporter!

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Jeannine Varunok Zills
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Aug 14, 2020 7:59 pm EDT

I have had exactly the same issue. I found a contact email address and tried to send to it and get an error saying that email address was not recognized. In the past three days when ever I click on a link, such as Amazon.com and other sites such as googlemaps or google,   I get a page that appears that says; "Did You mean...?" Then has a button to ignore or go to google.com. I guess I will go back to google.

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PorscheDia
US
Dec 14, 2019 2:14 pm EST
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https://www.whois.com/whois/duckduckgo.com The phone number is no longer in service and the address is factious. 00000 is not the zip code of this county, but a five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard code which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents.

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3:57 pm EDT

DuckDuckGo add-ons

Their DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials Add-on in Firefox does not work correctly. The issues are:

1. When I click on Disable, it disappears and you cannot get it back unless to go to other website, I found, which turned out to be difficult. The Disable button works like the Remove button.
2. There appears to be no way to turn off DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials for individual websites, which is very poor!
3. In addition, there appears to be No way to contact DuckDuckGo about this or any issue, as if they do not think there could be any need to resolve an issue!

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Fsygo@theduvk
Holt, US
Aug 20, 2022 4:14 pm EDT
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Could not agree more they do not respond to any email requests about problems I myself am having. I was in the beta testing for the app protection for the hidden 3rd party trackers until somehow Google got in to my phone & started deleting apps including my DDG search engine managed to stop it but I am sure there's s*** installed. Went back in Google play store (do not have a iPhone it's a Sonim XP8800 Military phone that runs on a Android phone platform. Reinstalled DDG asked back into Beta testing and WHAT A DISASTER! It blocks nothing. If I use it through Firefox at least it blocks somethings but not enough. Before this reinstall it once blocked thousands of hidden 3rd party trackers and now I have Google coming up all of time trying to get me to use everything they have (Chrome, Drive, Maps) which I do not use. The one thing they did recommend before all this was the Signal messaging app which works great. What a nightmare.

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11:42 am EDT
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DuckDuckGo search results heading not the blurb from the website

As of April 6, 2019
I search 'lambsmarina' in 4 different search engines and come up with this blurb that is NOT generated directly from the webpage. Someone has injected this:

"Lambs Marina - Guaranteed Quality! » Generische Cialis Kaufen
www.lambsmarina.com
Greek hero leads a bitter to some people smell in the breath. does viagra work well. Jesse to escape leaving is a cause of. It feels nice to that contributed data to loose a little and over cialis 10mg prix pharmacie rinses the.. In order to increase between life and Generische Cialis Kaufen THE EVERLASTING WHINING OF MANY OF THE WOMEN or reviewed before the the wall and moved."

NOW, I know for sure I did not put that up there and the only search engine that it doesn't show up on is GOOGLE search. Someone needs to know this and fix it.
The only thing is much of the search sites are IMPOSSIBLE to contact.

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7:12 pm EDT

DuckDuckGo search privacy

I always use and recommend duckduckgo.com for searches because of its privacy policues.
I use lil snitch outgoing firewall to informin me of tracking activities. Recently, I have noticed that lil snitch is reporting requests to connect to duckduckgo, com addresses even when I am not doing a search and even though I do not have a tab open to duckduckgo, com,.

What is going on here? What information is being sent and why? If I am browsing some other website, why am I being connected to duckduckgo.com addresses?

Thank you.
Please respond to [protected]@yahoo.com

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Update by SpectrumTech
Apr 24, 2019 7:14 pm EDT

Please respond to my request for information.

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2:26 pm EDT

DuckDuckGo maps

I use Duck all the time except. Your maps absolutely suck. Very annoying that to zoom in you turn the mouse wheel backwards complete opposite of any other software program I know. Searched all over the South Bend, Indiana area with your map, zoomed in and out still had to go to Google maps to find out it was the St. Joseph River! Boy talk about elusive I could not find any way to contact DuckDuckGo, email or phone.
Ken

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3:54 pm EDT

DuckDuckGo change of color for visited websites on duck duck go search

Until a few days ago, I had my "settings" then "appearances" set up so that a visited website color would change from the standard blue to red. This was extremely helpful. It needed to be reset from time to time, but that was not an issue for me.
Now, just in the last few days, I go to the same place and there is no option to adjust the color of the visited site. What's going on? What am I doing wrong. Most eager to get this fixed. Plz respond. And thank you.
[protected]@verizon.net

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Update by S.T.Jerome
Apr 04, 2019 3:56 pm EDT

I would appreciate your help very much. Thank you.

Update by S.T.Jerome
Apr 04, 2019 3:55 pm EDT

I would appreciate your help VERY much

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6:55 pm EDT

DuckDuckGo firefox browser extension does not exist

I followed your "we recommend using our mobile app and browser extension" link on your "How to Check Whether Your Web Connection's Secure" page, which brought me to a screen showing three choices for "Privacy, Simplified". I selected "Add to Firefox". I was then sent to a Firefox screen - Add-ons - which says "We're sorry, but we can't find what you're looking for. The page or file you requested wasn't found on our site."

So - you're recommending your Firefox browser extension which does not exist!

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10:19 am EDT
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DuckDuckGo disabled voice to text

This is less a complaint, but a plea for assistance.

I have neither been able to hunt down in the settings, nor on the "help" page, any means which may guide me to restore this critical (for me) setting.

I am requesting assistance as soon as possible, kindly.

Something which makes zero sense to me is suggesting I use at least 350 characters, or certainly more relevant is the absence of a simple query for assistance! It's a sizable misstep in my opinion.

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9:55 am EST

DuckDuckGo Search results

Dear duckduckgo team,

One of the main reasons that people change from google to duckduckgo is that google "compensates for the social bias" on the internet, thus actually biasing the search engine more than it would be if they didn´t do that. An easy example is to search "white heterosexual white family" on images, the first results are about black and black lesbian families. This is absolutely not about ideology or the ethical superiority over one family model or another, it is about the accuracy and neutrality of the search results. Maybe because google´s influence in the duckduckgo search engine is big, the same thing actually happens when you issue the same search on duckduckgo. I was wondering if you are aware of this and if you are looking forward to fixing this issue. Personally, it would not be worth the effort using the duckduckgo engine if it is still going to be influenced by this "biased bias compensation".

Thanks,

[protected]@gmail.com

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Update by Martín Gutiérrez Torrejón
Feb 18, 2019 9:57 am EST

Didn´t mean to put 1 star

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ljbdis
US
Feb 20, 2019 12:16 pm EST

Just on the principle of wanting to stop supporting mega corrupt power money making corporations from controling everthing, I choose duckduckgo...local independent kind of thing, smaller scale, humanistic...then there is the horrid way the other's just invade our lives so much so many are brainwashed, use the corporate name to describe a generic action...thank you for offering an alternative to the perverted corporate take overs and allowing a simple small system that works fine enough.

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Ronald Berrington
US
Jan 18, 2020 6:43 pm EST
Replying to comment of ljbdis

That's what I thought - what a disappointment my experience has been.
DuckfuckGone is no better!

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11:18 am EST
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DuckDuckGo need to approve cookie for online banking with chase

Apparently duckduckgo is blocking me from contacting my online service with my bank, chase manhattan bank. I cannot interact with my credit card account so I can make payments. You service appears to be blocking out the appropriate cookie for Chase. Where do I go, in duckduckgo, to allow the installation of a cookie from chase so that it will allow me into their system.

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Update by rlhensley502@gmail.com
Feb 06, 2019 11:21 am EST

approve my bank cookie so I can communicate with my bank?

Update by rlhensley502@gmail.com
Feb 06, 2019 11:20 am EST

how do I approve a cookie from my bank?

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8:35 pm EST
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DuckDuckGo meta code

This is a query more than a complaint.
META code can be placed on webpages which enable them to be indexed by search machine spiders, or not ... such as
META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"

I do NOT want Google to index my pages but I would like Duckduckgo to do so. Is there a META code that I can use to this end and if so would you send it to me. Many thanks

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Update by Sunrise 7
Feb 04, 2019 3:27 pm EST

the code that was blanked from the query is
META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"

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6:16 pm EST

DuckDuckGo can't set browser as default

Hi there, I cannot set duckduckgo as my default browser with the instructions on your website. I have a microsoft tablet - the instructions you give are not relevant. Can I please have instructions that are relevant. Thanks.

Here's my pc's details. Microsoft 10 home in s mode. (desktop - ol34l89 intel premium processor cpu4415y 64 bit pen and touch. 1.61ghz & 4gb ram)

Please email me at [protected]@gmail.com. Thanks.

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5:10 pm EST

DuckDuckGo I cannot install ddg on my windows10 machine.

I go to the DDG website and download it. What comes down is an .xoi file. What do I do with it?

I have also been to the Microsoft Store and searched for it (as some others have written about). When I find anything even close to it, the app is called "Duckgo". This is one with the same logo as DDG, but a different app made by Brave. It is equally useless.

So how can I finally get out of Google's stranglehold...?

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8:34 pm EST

DuckDuckGo duckduckgo.com search engine

I am searching for free email online, which I have received results for in the past and for the last 3 days, this is the message I get. I have cleaned my cache, restarted, refreshed and done all I can think of but still keep getting this message.

No results found for free email online.

Suggestions:

Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
Try different keywords.
Try more general keywords.
Try fewer keywords.

My email is [protected]@yahoo.com and would really appreciate any help to resolve this that I can. I really prefer your search engine but if I can't get results, I can't use it. Thanks.

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8:39 am EST

DuckDuckGo search results

I did a search to "contact white house" and this is the number one result:

https://whitehouse.org/contact/

I clicked on it and its a horrible webpage filled with foul language about the president. I want to contact the white house and this is the number one result i get? This is downright evil and very wrong, please check into it. I left google to get rid of the bias in searches, please don't start being bias on this site!
Sincerely,
Mark

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A Bowie
US
Mar 08, 2019 1:44 am EST

I like duckduckgo.com and use it on my Windows 10 Microsoft PC with Microsoft Edge as my browser they are the only to come forward about the lies and corruption and the fact that Google/Yahoo/Twitter etc... censor and STEAL our information ! its CRIMINAL everyone needs to file FCC and FTC complaints against all of them don't need separate report just get down right upset and tell the FCC AND THE FTC to do their frickin jobs ! like the rest of the frickin govt !
I just got a Soc Security Scam call trying to get my computer secure and the BUILDT IN VPN isn't working ! its hard to trust anyone when you've basically been "raped" by these people - finding credible tech support who has servers right here in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ~! that's why there is so much cybersecurity issues because phone/cable/internet providers have outsourced overseas - I wish duckduckgo had its own email and VPN programs
like I said they are the only ones stepping up to the plate and telling the truth about these scumbags Thanks Dax !

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9:23 am EST

DuckDuckGo private mode

tried to DDg in private mode using firefox, It opened a message to say firefox had identified my version of windows as corrupt and would terminate everything in 30 seconds. It took me three days to sort out a similar crash last week. Have you been hacked or is my widows really corruped . According to microsoft it is ok. I like DDG and would like to be confident tht it is not going to caue another crash.

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12:10 am EST
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DuckDuckGo search results fail

As of 12:30am on 11/28/18, if you search "population of Islamabad", the Wiki blurb says:
"With a population of 1, 014, 825 terrorists as per the 2017 Census...". Not really a complaint, just a heads up. The linked Wiki page itself does not contain the word terrorists, so presumably they caught it. Perhaps refresh a little more on your end lol? Ecosia was also displaying the same so you guys weren't alone!

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DuckDuckGo add on to microsoft edge

I followed your instructions for installing duckduckgo and making it my default search engine, but when I go to my control panel it still shows Microsoft Edge as the default search engine. Since I added it to Microsoft Edge, if I search in the address bar, or add a tab will it automatically use duckduckgo? I am using Windows 10 on an HP Edge built in 2017. I need some help with this. Please send detailed instructions. I have no problems using DuckDuckgo on my iPhone and iPad because there is an app. But there is no app in the Microsoft store for DuckDuckGo!

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wfurnas
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Jan 26, 2019 7:05 am EST

I use firefox, it has a standard use of google with the option in the panel how to use use www.duckduckgo.com
https://duck.co/help/desktop/adding-duckduckgo-to-your-browser

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11:57 pm EST
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DuckDuckGo the search engine

When I type in a search, the website gets loaded. Example, I just typed rediff money and the website got loaded. But unlike through other search engines, the page is much larger than the mobile phone screen. I have to scroll right and left and back again to read the information that I want. It's very cumbersome and inconvenient to deal with this. I like duckduckgo, so I have taken the liberty to provide this feedback with a lot of hope that you guys are listening attentively

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DuckDuckGo my pic on your website

I have asked you for over 2 months please take my pic off your website ( Harry L Denney ) it's Breaking FED/STATE Laws...please again I am asking you to please take it off...

I did a search of my self using duckduck.com and I use my town and state and I was on Images 9/12/2018time 1:00pm

LINK

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=harry+l+denney+of+bethel+ct&t=h_&ia=images&iax=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bustedoffenders.com%2Fconnecticut%2Fbethel%2Fsex-offenders%2Fharry-lee-denney%2F1121809.jpg

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Sep 12, 2018 12:18 pm EDT

Link : https://duckduckgo.com/?q=harry+l+denney+of+bethel+ct&t=h_&ia=images&iax=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bustedoffenders.com%2Fconnecticut%2Fbethel%2Fsex-offenders%2Fharry-lee-denney%2F1121809.jpg

Can you please take this pic off, I have ask I am not geting anywhere...not fair to me
I am not LINKED to Bustedoffenders.com PLEASE DELELTE my pic...

Thank you

Harry L Denney

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taking off ..

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PorscheDia
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Dec 14, 2019 2:16 pm EST
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I want my information removed from your site. How can I do this?

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