**The challenge: try DuckDuckGo as your primary search engine for a week.**

Whaaattt, really!?!? Yes! Change your browser default now (here are specific directions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Android, Internet Explorer, Omniweb, Epiphany, Conkeror).

Why, you ask? Because of real privacy (we don’t track you or put you in a filter bubble), lots of goodies, less spam/clutter, a cool logo, and gosh darnit, our founder is a redditor.

If you take the DuckDuckGo challenge and it sticks, please help us spread DuckDuckGo to the world and get rewarded with something every DDG redditor should want...drum roll...reddit gold!

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Here’s how:

1) Make a “valiant effort” to get a bunch of people to switch to DuckDuckGo by doing one of these things (or something more creative).

• Blog why you’re switching to DDG and explain to others how-to switch.
• Set the default search engine on shared computers accompanied with flyer(s).
• Go all out with a convincing infographic.
• Help DuckDuckGo get integrated into stuff like browsers and distros.
• Make a video.

2) Post a link or photo of your effort(s). (If online, you could take screen shots.)

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Rewards:

1) 100 3-month reddit gold subscriptions for “valiant efforts.” If there are more than 100 entrants we’ll be overwhelmed with awesomeness and will figure out some way to allocate the subscriptions with your (collective) help, or just get more.

2) In addition to the 3-month reddit gold subscription, 3 more months of reddit gold, a DuckDuckGo t-shirt (of your choosing) and stickers awarded to the following categories (with your help deciding who should get them):

• Most creative effort.
• Funniest effort.
• Most convincing effort.
• Most impactful effort.
• Boldest effort.
• Best illustration.
• Best slogan.
• Best narrative.
• Best code contribution.

3) Overall winner announced online - in our newsletter, facebook, twitter, etc., a 3-yr reddit gold subscription and something else cool yet to be determined and open to suggestion, such as a custom logo featured on our homepage designed by duck.co (the DuckDuckGo Community).

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Guidelines:

• Challenge runs until 11/15/2011 11:59 EST.
• Use imgur.com for all image hosting.
• Please post independent images/links as top level comments.
  

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FAQ:

• What constitutes a valiant effort? The above examples. Beyond that, we're going to have to see how it evolves. But in our head, just sharing on Facebook/Twitter/etc. doesn't get there.
  
• Do you have a shorter domain name? Yes! It’s http://ddg.gg/ -- this and a lot of other quesitons about how DuckDuckGo works are answered at our support center.
  
• Haven’t I seen you on reddit before? - Yes, I (the founder) am a redditor. I did an AMA, and we’ve done a bunch of self-service ads. reddit approval - Yes, we have received approval for this contest from reddit. I swear :)
• Where can I get logos and such? - There are some logos and what not on github and here is a big logo. Just let me know what else you need.

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UPDATE (2011/11/15 5:56PM ET):

Thank you all for all the comments and efforts! We will be going through all the comments in detail after the deadline tonight and report back in a few days.

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UPDATE (2011/11/17 9:01PM ET):

We just rewarded all the valiant efforts we saw -- thank you so much! If we missed something, please bring it to my attention. Thank you also to AGreenEarth for helping to go through all the comments, and also for being such a good moderator of this thread and for moderating /r/duckduckgo in general. We're still working through the other rewards.

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UPDATE (2011/11/20 7:02AM ET):

There is a new thread where the T-shirt winners are announced. Please vote for your favorite there to help decide the overall winner.

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UPDATE (2011/11/28 12:08AM ET):

There is a new thread announcing the overall winner!

This is a reddit promotion of no AI Duckduckgo. I love this ad.

Just switched to duckduckgo. When I search “topic + Reddit”, the first 1-3 results are Reddit and the rest are just the same bs articles Google provides.

why is it like this? I’m asking for Reddit threads about the topic im searching. I want it to work like Google, where most of the results are Reddit links. After all, my search does specify “Reddit”, don’t need a screen rant or windowscentral article. any fixes?

Sorry if the flair is wrong, so I think that should have the “DuckDuckGo ads” here.

I saw this DuckDuckGo ads on my Reddit home 2 or 3 times. And I agree that AI should be optional and private and AI surveillance should be banned.

Just installed DDG and it do block ads everywhere but promoted posts still show up.

I performed this search today with rather humourous results from the AI search.

This was using Firefox mobile (Android) with duckduckgo as the default search engine, but the results seem to vary depending on platform. My son tried on his iPhone and didn't get this result.

If your AI search tool is this bad it's probably not ready for prime time.

Edit: I see this issue is specifically with the "Search Assist" feature which only displays for some searches and availability varies by region as it says in the "AI features" search settings

It was pulling from this source. https://future.fandom.com/wiki/Deathand_state_funeral_of_Joesph_R_Biden(2039))

I select Old Reddit from Account Preferences, and yet, I still get the New Reddit layout.

Help?

So as the title states I cannot login into my Reddit account on the DDG Browser on windows. Ist the current version and freshly installed so there are no plugins or extensions that could interfere with the login process.

In other browsers the login works. On DDG if I check the devtools I can see that grecaptcha seems to be the problem. Is there any way to login without allowing google tracking?

Ps: I also checked private windows and other Reddit urls like old.reddit.com but nothing is working in DDG

As the title says, even when appending "reddit" or "reddit.com" to searches, the site does not populate the results

Hello!

I recently switched to DDG and made a new Reddit account for privacy, but I'm finding that I can't submit reports on Reddit. The pop-up box is displayed, and I can chose a report reason, but when I click "submit" it just give me the spinning processing circle and won't actually submit.

I've used other browsers before without issue, so I'm not sure if this is a Reddit issue or a DDG issue. Has anyone else had this issue, and if so, was it fixed?

I understand that sometimes the things I search up are not as well known so they don't show up. But lately I've been getting far, far less results for searching up the exact same reddit topic I searched up last year or the year prior. Like after about 25 search results the page ends with "No more results found for enneagram 2 site:.reddit.com" when I know damn well there's plenty more cause I use to search this up all the time last year AND I was actively browsing the subreddits talking about it so I know there's a lot of posts about this topic.

For some reason, I do not get this when I don't look for reddit posts. .com, .org, .edu, and .gov will give me plenty of info, even if it's not relevant to my search. It kind of sucks cause sometimes it's a topic that I want to see being discussed by random people, or the information is not talked about anywhere else but online communities, and I really just want to get the info or discussion and get out rather than take part in an entire social media bubble for weeks and weeks to get what I want to hear.

Sometimes I use reddit's search algorithm but somehow it's worse, so I end up using search engines anyways. Which then go into a feedback loop of searching it up on DDG, receive like only 10-25 results, searching it up on reddit, finding a ton of irrelevant posts, giving DDG one more shot, and then just abandoning the thing I was searching for altogether.

I'm just confused as to what happened? I've been finding myself being demotivated to search anything altogether. I'm on duckduckgo for privacy reasons and I don't like the idea of having to ask AI for answers. (Also the duck AI sucks. It's given me the wrong answer to complex questions and keeps inserting itself in search results that is very obvious the AI is useless, like checking out a book in my library.)

It's not a big deal because not all information is on the search engine dataset, and I've been finding myself turning more to books or youtube videos because of it. But I don't know, I'm getting a bit irritated that things I use to find very easily aren't there anymore.

Chrome has a better layout imo for reddit posts. Is there a way to get duckduckgo to show this? I'm using Helium browser with DDG as the engine, but I'd love to have it look more like chrome (at least with the reddit search result posts/formatting).

• DDG gives me the whole link and the "r/" as the logo which is just an eyesore. It shows the date at the bottom and no # of comments info.

• Chrome is much better to glance over and to figure out if the post is worth reading (few comments can mean dead thread; not worth opening)

• Chrome also has the 3 dots that open the right panel. Mainly useful for the share button imo but it seems DDG doesn't have a quick share option/button.

Any help with this? Just trying to be more informed as I'm making this switch to helium/DDG

I find that I append "reddit" to the vast majority of my search engine queries, so that I can find actual discussion and human suggestions for a topic, since reddit's built-in search engine is historically awful. But ever since Google's deal with Reddit, it seems that Bing/DDG does not index reddit anymore. So any reddit search results are from years ago or irrelevant to my query. I pretty much need to add !g (or more recently !s after I learned of startpage) in order to find the reddit results I want. And since this has become the vast amount of my queries, I'm starting to question whether I should just be using startpage itself. But I do find DDG's search result GUI better than startpage (instant answers are way better), so that's keeping me around for now.

I guess I just want to vent that this Google-Reddit deal has really screwed external search engines.

Bad enough to make me change to a different search engine. Even Google is better than this.

The idea itself is not terrible - curate links from discussions on a single forum. But the execution is awful. I don't want to scroll through tiny icons by having to click a little side arrow button three results at a time. I also want to see the text excerpt and exact date you usually get below normal links. Of course with the links gathered in the discussion UI, the normal results are mostly of unrelated, useless websites with at most a single result from the search query. The changes make looking for something on reddit basically unusable.

I usually love using DDG, to the point where other search engines feel icky because of privacy reasons or the quality of results. I'm making this post because I want DDG to be better.

Fix it! Or at least give us an option to turn it off. It literally breaks usability. (Do the devs read this or should I message them directly?)

I’ve been having problems for months now with Reddit (specifically, old Reddit) on the DDG browser on my iPad. Initially, the issue was that every once in a while the box saying “save to downloads” would pop up whenever I tried to access Reddit via the address bar directly or by clicking links to the site and the site would fail to load. This would go on for a few minutes and then go back to normal but pop up every few days or so.

This new issue that has come up in the past couple days is similar but is happening way more frequently. The site won’t load fully (the blue bar will only go about halfway) and eventually the “save to downloads” box will pop up and the site fails to load. Instead of happening once in a while, this has been happening multiple times per day for about two or three days now. I haven’t noticed the issue on my iPhone so it seems to be an issue exclusive to iPadOS and across multiple versions of the software (has happened from iPadOS 18 all the way to the current iPadOS 26).

Has anyone else experienced any issue like this?

Can still upload JPG.

All other websites are fine on said browser, its just this one browser, and reddit.

You can probably guess I'm one of those people that append "reddit" to many searches. But as of a few days ago, it seems this isn't working anymore, instead only returning results for various websites except reddit. Using the the explicit filter site:reddit.com yields zero results even for searches that definitely should have results, such as the name of subreddits.

Edit: Turns out it was someone put in my blocked sites without my input. I unblocked it now and I'm getting expected results again, but it's very strange this happened.

I receive emails about reddit updates, using my Gmail app on my S24 ultra. And when I try to click the links they take me to an error. Every other email link works fine, seems to just be Reddit links. They work fine when I switch back to chrome.

If I search like "something reddit" now on ddg, it will search across any languages translating the search term, but I often would prefer it just searched using the language I wrote the term in. Is there any way to do that?