OP's headline: Everyone hates DDG!

Stats from site: 70% of users give average to highest ratings - mostly highest.

There are a few complaints about DDG tracking users or whatnot - but w/o evidence. One user claimed he got Instagram ads for a product he searched on DDG. Another user is angry DDG didn't overturn AZ election results or something.

A year ago, a security researcher found a data leak in DDG's Android browser, involving favicons. He submitted to DDG who promptly fixed it. ref: https://www.hackread.com/duckduckgo-collects-user-without-br...

If one wants to complain about DDG, how about that they don't respect search operands? That adds a lot of suck.

A lot of these complaints are about the DuckDuckGo android browser, which I used to use and I did have performance issues with. Now I use Firefox mobile but I still have the DuckDuckGo search engine as default.

In the past 3 years now of using DuckDuckGo, I less and less ever have to go to Google to find things. The few times I have gone to google, I actually got worse results so that's saying something.

It might be due to the fact I'm used to the old way of search engines, before they knew everything about you to figure out what you actually want. I guess I just give them all the right keywords to find things I want, whereas a lot of regular google users just want the search engine to figure out what they are thinking (based on what Google knows about them).

The claims on privacy are questionable. Ad-tech nowadays is so good that it can figure out what you're thinking based on micro-emotions/movements. You hover over a link for just a little bit? You scroll back to look at that picture another time? Your best friend shares a picture of their new thing? You're not as unpredictable as you think you are.

The points on hiring practices are just irrelevant to the search engine, and highly subjective (I don't know nor care what they are actually complaining about)

Actually judging from a swift perusal of this single page this looks like one of those websites / media that makes any well-meaning person look like a derp for intermingling with all those hate-based trolls. "I know a lot of websites and I know what's on national TV but [trustpilot] just won't show my [favorite fantasy grievance] so it's fake[trustpilot] fakefake[trustpilot]". Quoting from memory so probably not super accurate.

They don't? I love DDG, and that page tells me that I'm not alone.

My favourites are the criticisms of it allegedly sharing data, as search terms input on it later appear in targeted ads. Think folks don't realise just how good personalisation profile/psychographics data is these days, and how accurately they can predict what you might want!

The bigger thing probably is that if you search for products, and then click on search results for them, the shops etc you click will of course leak that info.

People also don’t realize that other people in the same house (ip address) looking for products can result in you getting ads for these products.

The result can be you are only talking about a product and suddenly get ads about it, which makes people think their phones are spying on them.

All this tells me is that I shouldn’t trust this site called “trustpilot“.

Their name sounds pretty suspicious to me, like they’re telling users that they should be trusted, just because they’ve got the word “trust” in their name.

Article summary: Actually users very much like DuckDuckGo except for a few crazed Trump supporters upset that it returns dangerous left-wing pages like "Wikipedia".

"Article"? It's a review site. Take your ideological rant elsewhere.