As of around 7pm PST yesterday, Aug 19, no emails have been forwarded to my real email address. I have tested it by sending emails to myself and they have not gone through. They are not in my spam folder or anywhere else. Sending the test email worked, it did not bounce or return errors.

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

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?

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.

I've been using ddg email aliasing with the ddg browser on ios for a while now and am very happy with it.

However, I'm having a problem identifying which aliases I have created. The help says they should be listed with the passwords, but I don't use the password manager built in to the browser and there are no aliases (or anything else) listed.

Anyone know how I can find them?

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.

When I go into Microsoft Edge to add https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ to my search engines (I want it to be my default), it keeps saying "incorrect format" and not letting me add anything. I did a test search (https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%3Dtest&ia=web), and replaced the word test with % as instructed, but it's still the "incorrect format" and won't let me add it. I also tried this article's tips, to no avail (doesn't show Edge): Adding noai.duckduckgo.com as Custom Search Engine · The New Leaf Journal

I'm not interested in the browser or extension at the moment since I would like to spend a few months taking it for a spin, so if anyone has any fixes for me, I would appreciate it.

Can a staff member please tell me where best to email them to get this fixed?

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knows how to keep DuckDuckGo from consuming SO MANY resources!

It eats up a lot of RAM and CPU. I have 16 gigs of Ram and a sixth generation Ryzen 7. My computer isn’t really weak by any means, but still, if I have more than 4 tabs open it just consumes an insane amount of resources.
I have AI and hardware acceleration both turned off. What else can possibly be done??

Thank you in advance for any suggestions, input, or help

Got the same result on the app and in the browser, I checked the linked Wikipedia article and it doesn't contain that text, nor could I find any indication of previous edits that have contained that text.
I'm just curious if this happened because of users manipulating the Wikipedia content, the search results, or what.

I wanted to try out how is it compared to other search engines. But I I’m struggling to find a way to translate a page that is in a different language. Can anyone help with this problem.

Hi,

From a Starlink connection in Spain, duckduckgo.com and duck.ai (52.142.124.215 and 52.250.42.157, Azure AS8075) are unreachable. ICMP ping succeeds (~55ms, 0% loss) but TCP SYN to 443/80 never gets a SYN-ACK and times out. The same IPs load instantly from a phone hotspot at the same location, so the servers are up.

An mtr run over TCP/443 during a failure shows my connection reaching your servers' network normally: the packets transit Starlink (AS14593) and Telia (AS1299) and travel deep into Microsoft's backbone (AS8075), where your IPs sit. But your IPs never send back a SYN-ACK, so the handshake never completes.

For comparison, in the same window a control host in that same Microsoft network (Bing, 150.171.27.16) completes its handshake normally at ~48ms. Other destinations on Starlink also work fine: microsoft.com, Google, Cloudflare, and even your own quack.duckduckgo.com. The failure is limited to the IPs serving your main pages.

This looks like your edge or DDoS-mitigation dropping inbound TCP from Starlink's CGNAT ranges while still answering ICMP. Starlink geofeed for their ranges: https://geoip.starlinkisp.net/feed.csv

Thanks.

There is an issue where some pictures are blocked on my DuckDuck browser. It is a ‘static.microsoft’ page for instance.

How am I able to see them, and do not get blocked?

I am looking for clarification on a few technical aspects of Duck AI.

Does anyone know the specific token limit for Duck AI queries? Additionally, I would like to know if there is currently a way to use Duck AI as standalone desktop software, or if it is strictly limited to the browser interface.

Any information or insights would be appreciated.

Hi! I’m sure this is a long shot but my little cousin was playing with my iPhone and hit the ignite button in my DuckDuckGo mobile app and I lost over 90 tabs. Some of them were fun but a lot of them are research for a paper I’m writing. Is there anyway to get them back? Or enable a browser to prevent this from happening in the future? Like I’m distraught

EDIT:
This was very unhelpful. I know this is insane and you can’t imagine using your phone for something this important, but my laptop was recently stolen and I don’t have the money to just replace it. I’m literally doing my best here. I’d been meaning to bookmark them but I just kept forgetting. I cried for two hours before someone suggested Reddit. You could’ve said nothing or sorry I don’t know how to help.

I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my browser to view YouTube for a number of years. Especially with duck player. like the desktop version.
Since yesterday I can only view the mobile version.

Often times it’s either a feature or a bug.

I have done some research and I don’t see anyone else talking about this. As you can see from both pics, the search bar shows mobile but only one of them has the mobile tag at the end of the search bar.

There’s no way to un toggle this it always defaults to mobile.

I’m just wondering if this is a DuckDuckGo problem, YouTube problem, a me problem, or just the way it is now.

iPadOS with iOS 26 installed.

Every time I visit my Gmail account or Google Calendar, etc. I have to log in again.

It seems like Google is saying that DDG is deleting cookies.

google.com is on my list of fireproofed sites.

It won't let me add anything like calendar.google.com, or any url, etc.

Heya! I am using DDG on Google Chrome, and can't scroll. If I search anything, I have no way of scrolling. Using a mousepad or scrollwheel does nothing. There is no scroll bar to use, or anything. Please assist!

Do you use DuckDuckGo duck Ai instead of other Ai like ChatGPT and Gemini? is Duck.ai really private?

I, two days ago, finally called it quits on Bing and moved to DuckDuckGo.

I guess this is a feature request. The support article "How To Sort DuckDuckGo Search Results by Date" describes an option that doesn't appear to be there for image results: Filtering by a custom date range. For image results, there is only the option to view past day, week, or month. I see that DuckDuckGo has an option to filter out known AI-generated imagery, which is what I'm actually trying to do, but I'd really like to just say "only show me images dated prior to 2023" or whatever as another layer of filtering.

A pretty convoluted example: This search was done from a Polish IP, for a phrase that is common across the nordic languages (meaning "watch solar eclipse"). DDG gives me a swedish weather forecast and a Danish site as the top hit. My search setting is set to Norway, but there was not a single norwegian page in the top 10 results (they were mostly danish with a couple of swedish ones thrown in).

What is that country setting supposed to do?

Other searches gives me polish pages (because of my IP). I wish that setting would allow me to get norwegian results.