Reviews for Qwant - Search engine & tracker blocker
Qwant - Search engine & tracker blocker by Qwant
635 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16073270, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ronan, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Charrier Francoise, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Lee The Bee, 4 years agoDecent results, but sadly this dictatorship add-on hijacks your home page, doesn't allow you to change it back (unless you disable the extension entirely) and the home page it links to actually takes quite a time to load.
I just wanted to use your search engine, but now I'll be going back to DuckDuckGo. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15050995, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Naresh, 4 years agoThis add-on takes over my privacy controls and does not allow me to disable those features. I simply want to set the search engine as default, not buy into an entire ecosystem. Sad.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16311515, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16309741, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12659227, 4 years agoDirects new tab page to it's own choice and cannot be changed. I've uninstalled it for that reason, NO addon or software in general controls what I do with my PC. I found search results nowhere near as good as Google or DuckDuckGo (which makes similar privacy claims) and heavily USA biased, despite setting my own country.
The redirction of my home page was the final straw. I found the add-on from another page and didn't check the reviews here. I wish I had, I wouldn't have even considered installing it if I'd known about the hijacking of my homw page.
Note to developer - you can see how unpopular the hijhacking is, you would do well to change it because it's a liability and will sink you. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15188728, 4 years agoI installed this add-on to change my default search engine to Qwant, but it just obnoxiously changed my homepage, and did not allow me to change this setting. Without a checkbox in the extension for this and asking users if they want this feature or not, it's assuming too much, and that's just not nice.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Sanjay Aiyagari, 4 years agoDon't like the takeover of the homepage. However, upon uninstallation they give you the option of using Qwant Basic which is what I want.
It should the other way. Qwant Basic should be called "Qwant", and this one should be called "Qwant Extra" and be completely optional. - Rated 2 out of 5by jDally987, 4 years agoDo NOT like that it changes your home page to Qwant. Changing the default search engine is perfect and that's all that I want. Use this one instead ("Qwant Basic" add-on): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/qwant-com/
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16215154, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aqeela, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14366081, 4 years agoLeider keine Qwant-Suche ohne dieses unnötige Addon.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13673007, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16149720, 5 years agoI liked the engine, but couldn't make it change to Firefox browser.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15536862, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14759540, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16021488, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Irongut, 5 years agoThis extension claims to add an alternative search engine that is privacy focused, which it does, but it also acts like a virus and takes over your browser. It changes your home page and takes over control of tracking protection. Installing Quant REDUCED my privacy by turning off some of Firefox's built in tracking protection. There is no need for this behaviour just to add a search engine, I will be uninstalling now and recommending people avoid this malware.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHello, we're really sorry that the add-on does not meet you expectations.
If you only want the SE (and not the homepage and privacy settings change) you can install our other add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/qwant-com/
Nevertheless, can you please explain us what where the reductions in you privacy settings? We're really curious and will absolutely improve this point.
Thank you for your feedback. - Rated 4 out of 5by Bourrelier, 5 years agoNouvelle tablette et veux en profiter en tant que système français
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16020399, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ludovic MURAT, 5 years ago