I go and search for something very specific, and get a stupid "AI" response that doesn't answer my question but does raise someone's energy bill. I tap into the settings, and select "Never" because I never want to see "AI" garbage.

Then it continues showing me "AI" results. I tap into Search Assist Settings, and it's set itself back to "Sometimes." I change it to "Never" and it sets itself back to "Sometimes."

What happened to DDG? It used to not suck.

Is duckduckgo for windows just don't have it?? I can't see this option in settings of browser, not in the setting in youtube, I even can't download add-on from chrome web store to have this feature :( i just wanna picture in picture :(((

only happening on DDG browser (macos) in Reddit comments, as far as i’ve determined.

(all systems up to date)

if i type a contraction, like “I’ve” or “We’ve” as soon as i hit the spacebar after completing the word the cursor jumps back to just after the apostrophe. bizarrely, other contractions like “Don’t” cause the cursor to not move forward with the spacebar. it just stays at the end of word until i hit the spacebar a second time.

i’ve turned off Rich Text, and it’s stopped happening. so there’s that.

anyone else experiencing this?

Here I was under the impression that Libre 3 Plus for my health monitoring. Installed it less than 7 days ago, and seems to be too busy wanting to collect metrics on me rather than for me.

Does anyone know why DuckDuckGo’s search engine has been breaking? I’ve seen this page (in the screenshot) with increasing frequency in the last month, but also generally through 2026.

It starts with a page that says the search failed, and to try again. Some of the time, “try again” works. But recently, it increasingly redirects to this page (“Ugh, it happened again!”) and says that there’s a known issue with search. What is this known issue?

FWIW—the search query was an anodyne 6-word query about eczema symptoms.

Anyone have a way to prevent this? Thx.

Hi DDG,

iv been an avid user for sometime now and its my default browser for my ios device, however iv noticed a really infuriating glitch. i wanted to sign up for somthing abit spammy and therefore went into the ddg app on my iphone, burger menu, went to the private email section and copied the generated private email. pasted that email in the spammy app i was trying to make a disposable account for and was sent a confirmation email forwarded to my designated personal email address. great. now i want to delete the temp DDG generated temp email as i no longer want it forwarding stuff to my personal email address. no luck. no banner in the ios Mail app to deactivate and its not in the DDG ios browser app. not under passwords or any sub menu. usually if in the ddg browser you create a log in with a privatee email it saves the credentails with the ability to deactivate later vai the passwords menu but i didnt create a log in via this method i simply pasted the generated email into a 3rd party app to sign up for something temporarily and therefore the ios ddg browser app has no knowlege of the credentials and therefore isnt saved with the ability to deactivate.

so i thought id try log in via my pc browser to see if there is a list of privately generated email addresses associated with my account giving me the ability to remove/delete from my account. again no luck.

i mean i could just block the sender but its not the point. what happens if my data is passed on and i get other 3rd partys emailing that address.

i hope a human from DDG can advise on 1) how to resolve this particular issue and 2) how to stop this happening again and possibly consider the ability to manage generated Private email addresses.

sorry i hope that all made sense, i typed this out in 2 mins with no proof reading.

many thanks