But there’s also an option to completely disable ads if you want (these ads don’t track you online and help support DDG). You can change your region and preferred unit system. General Settings: The General tab has some interesting settings. Also, make sure the HTTPS setting is turned on. Although, you can turn on the Redirect option that will hide the exact search term from the website you ultimately clicked on. Privacy Settings: DDG doesn’t track you online by default so there aren’t many privacy settings to be disabled here.

From the Appearance tab, you can even change things like the font, font size, link colors and a lot more. In iOS, it’s as simple as going to Settings > Safari > Search Engine, and selecting DuckDuckGo.Ĭustomize the UI: Click the hamburger menu from a DDG page, go to Settings and then Theme to switch to a whole different DDG look. In OS X, just go to Preferences -> Search and from the Search engine dropdown, select DuckDuckGo. That means doing this in Safari is really easy. In Safari: Apple has officially added DuckDuckGo as one of the supported search engines.

If for some reason DDG isn’t able to add the entry, you can do it manually by typing in DuckDuckGo in the first box, in the second box and in the third. And beside it, click the Make Default button. From here, find the entry that DuckDuckGo made. Now, click the Hamburger menu button in Chrome, go to Settings -> Search and click Manage Search Engines. Get started by going to DuckDuckGo’s website and clicking the Set DuckDuckGo as your default search engine option.įrom the popup, click the Here button to add DDG as a search engine in Chrome. Google doesn’t really make it easy to switch the default search engine to DuckDuckGo.

How to Try it in Chrome Before Switching.

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