Search engine filters results for political reasons
Users believe the search engine censors or down-ranks results for political reasons and want unfiltered results.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
44 public reports · first reported 12 March 2022 · last reported 15 July 2024
What's going wrong
Many Firefox users installed this DuckDuckGo add-on for private search, then left after reports that the search engine down-ranked or filtered results on politically charged topics.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
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