I have all AI search and assistance deactivated. But the first answer to most stuff I search is a summary of my search. The actual real answers are only shown after. Is that not the exact same as the AI result window on google?
That might be a dumb question but I’m super confused right now
for some reason when i search for images i sometimes (at random) get entirely nsfw results. it only happens occasionally, and sometimes refreshing the page will reset the results to ones more accurate to the actual search made, but other times it will continue to show me the same nsfw images. has anyone else experienced this issue?
some more details in case they are relevant: i have safe search off, which i understand might yield some nsfw results, but i am searching completely neutral things such as "mobius strip" or "football sticker" and getting nothing but nsfw images. this issue has occured on both mobile broswer and pc. changing the safe search to moderate seems to have helped but i don't know if it will stick as a solution.
All,
I searched for something this morning and one of the first source entries was Grokipedia.
Is this now going to be used in every search?
I'm more than a bit miffed if this is the case.
Thank you.
Something strange is happening with the DuckDuckGo browser on my iPhone - the screen time is saying it is being used from midnight to when I wake up in the morning even though my phone screen is off and I'm asleep. The screenshot is duckduckgo.com but previous nights it has been whatever the last website I had open was.
What's more strange is the DDG app appears as a second line on the list of apps (second photo).
Is this something with DDG or my phone?
App and iOS updated as of today (21Apr2026).
Windows 11, Firefox browser, DuckAI pro account.
How can I save my chats that I have in DuckAI?
It's not saving when I close the browser. Expected, I guess, because I have everything set to delete when I close the browser. (History, cache, etc.)
So how and where can I set the exception to keep these chats? I not very experienced with whitelisting stuff.
Also a couple follow up questions:
I assume that all my past chats that have disappeared after I closed the browser are already gone, yes? I mean, they ARE gone, but I mean- They cannot be retrieved, correct?
Do chats still save if I change from Pro back to free?
Is there a way to save the entire chat? The little copy boxes only show up individually for prompt/response. Is there no 'save all'?
I assume that even if I bookmark these chats, if I close the browser with no changes, that I'll lose them anyway and opening the bookmark will just go to a blank chat page, correct?
It really annoys me having AI hallucinations show up for a search by default. DDG has tried to make some stand about “choice” and running fake surveys but a lot of us use browsers like Firefox Focus on mobile or automatic new container tabs on desktop. Therefore any cookie saved preferences are totally useless to us.
If a user wants to feed themself slop it should be something opted in to not default.
I’m not someone to say there’s never ever a use case for generative “ai” but being able to bang into it with !ai seems like enough to me. But I don’t want to be exposed to automated incompetence and disinformation for every day searches. If I want to use gen ai to do something like find a specific word replacement or something I can do that deliberately I don’t need hallucinations showing up instead of facts.
Netflix videos won't play on DDG browser (windows 11). This is the error message I get:
Needless to say that there's no such "protected content" settings in DDG. Also, disabling protections for the site, didn't help. I would appreciate any feedback.
So I was using DDG to search about some stuff that I heard about and was curious to buy. I know that almost everyone will track that nonsense, so I have not ever mentioned it in Anything other than DDG. Also, I was running it on a Ubuntu distro that lets all the apps run comp isolated, so it was not a client side thing either. Anyways, I did my search and left, but now I am getting SO MANY google ads for it. What the heck?! How has this happened, did DDG share that? Please do not tell me my favorite privacy focused people are lot actually privacy focused.
i had to log in to reddit manually twice after clearing data, i checked and its still fireproofed, what gives?
Hello, I'm writing this because I don't remember my forwarding address and now i can't use the email since the verification email from the other service i cant-access it. If someone can help me with this, i will appreciate it so much.
I have been using Duck.ai to help explain or translate some text documents. I noticed that some of the responses it gives are full of hallucinations. I expect some hallucinations when using AI, but the amount is alarming. I figured out that the images I uploaded (or taken as photos in the DDG app on iOS or Duck.ai’s website in Safari) get compressed so massively before being sent to the AI models, that the models cannot read the text (the image quality is too poor for OCR). So the models can see some headings in a document, and would start making up the rest. I have tried multiple documents, and the image quality isn’t good enough for models to read documents written in regular fonts (using regular sizes, maybe 12pt?) on letter (A4) sized paper. I haven’t tried PDF uploads, but that isn’t my workload.
Has anyone else noticed this? Does anyone know of a fix or workaround?
I noticed that Pedo trumps orange face keeps showing up in all my image searches. I want him excluded. Is it possible?
I’ve noticed a recent change in DuckDuckGo’s file upload behaviour and I’m trying to confirm whether others see the same.
When using an <input type="file" accept="..."> with multiple extensions (e.g. .pdf,.docx,.txt,.jpg):
This makes file selection much more cumbersome.
Important:
Repro test:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/file
Has anyone else noticed this?
Is this intentional or a regression?
It looks like DuckDuckGo is not aggregating the accept attribute into a single filter and is instead passing extensions individually to the OS picker.
When opening a link from another app, let's say X or Telegram, (Duckduckgo being my default browser) a white empty image appears in the browser for a fraction of a second before opening the page. The problem does not appear when using navigation inside the browser.
Another issue is that Duckduckgo seems more sluggish now.
Any ideas?
In the DDG help pages, it says
“For Android, MacOS, and iOS, you can easily deactivate (and reactivate) private Duck Addresses within the Passwords menu in the DuckDuckGo browser. First, select the browser menu, then open Passwords, select the private Duck Address you want to deactivate (or reactivate), and follow the on-screen prompts.”
I have made hundreds of DDG email addresses but only two show up
in the Passwords menu in iOS DDG
Any suggestions?
If i log in into twitter, it saying i am using chrome?? i dont have google chrome at all in my PC
if it true.. its betrayal from DDG to all user...
kindly explain..
I do believe recently my Duckduckgo app was updated on my Samsung S26U and I am noticing an issue. So if I go to a website using the app, and then his a link on the page, I used to be able to hit the back button on my Samsung bottom screen to return to the previous screen. Now when I hit it, it closes the app completely. I have cleared cache, data, removed the app and reinstalled but this keeps happening.
Anyone else have this and maybe a fix? Thanks
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if i pay for duck.ai subscription do you offer online search beyond 2023 training data?
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I do not have the capability to perform online searches or access real-time information. My responses are based on a mixture of licensed data, data created by human trainers, and publicly available data up until my last training cut-off in 2023. For the most accurate and up-to-date information, I recommend using reliable online search engines or databases.
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if i subscribe to duck.ai does that change?
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DuckDuckGo does not offer a service called Duck.ai. DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine that does not track or store personal data. If you are referring to a different service, please provide more details so I can assist you accurately.
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It's hogging my limited CPU and from what I have read, it looks like something you run once in a while not all the time.
