[Cialug] DuckDuckGo is now emulating Google!!

[David Champion]

Or you could YOLO it and use Google, then you can actually find information
when you search.

-dc


On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 3:07 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Oct 2022, Brett Neese wrote:
>
> > I don't think this is true. I can load DDG just fine without JS, and
> there
> > are no tracking URLs.
> >
> So, .. you're seeing the links in the search results go to the sites and
> not back to DDG?
>
> Just tested again, .. that seems to occur when you are using the search
> bar from DDG (i.e. on the page "duckduckgo.com".
>
> When DDG is added as a search engine option in Firefox, doing the search
> in the location bar will redirect the result links back to DDG, which
> breaks them since those links to not point to the html site.
>
> Looks like Brave will work propertly; goodbye DDG.
>
>         TTFR!
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