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DuckDuckGo is an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results

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How to replace external-content.duckduckgo.com in Apache proxy?

I'm trying to setup a reverse proxy for DuckDuckGo on Apache(ddg.example.com). Now I can visit DuckDuckGo home page and search something through my Apache server. But I found that the images in the search page are not shown. I tried to setup a…
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How can i use duckduckgo bangs with vimium?

I'm using chrome with the extension vimium and set duckduckgo as my default search engine.It's really useful to get search results with duckduckgo bangs.But I can't use that through vimium's vomnibar.Is it possible to combine?
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DuckDuckGo browser extension breaking Google Sign in?

Recently upgraded to google new authentication service for sign in/up (https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web). We've had reports Google's new library does not work with DuckDuckGo's browser extension and been able to prove this by…
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Download in DuckDuckGo not possible, access to memory not possible

On my son's Android 11 phone* with DuckDuckGo 5.135.0, when trying to download e. g. a pdf file from a website, the error occurs that download is not possible. Going to settings and looking at the privileges for DuckDuckGo there is nothing called…
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React native - facebook tracker in regular android build

I have an app in production built with react native for android. There are no 3rd party plugins for tracking, logging in, or any of those sorts. Recently DuckDuckGo app had a tool to implement others apps blocking trackers using VPN redirection. And…
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How to Edit the Number of Sentences shown in DuckDuckGo using Python?

I'm working on a script that will scrape any answers to my questions using DuckDuckGo! I tried doing this using DuckDuckGo's API, and it kind of works as well but the result gives a ton of info.. Is there any method to limit it's sentences? Like to…
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DuckDuckGo API not responding when space in encoded url query

I kind of have two real questions. Both relate to this code: import urllib import requests def query(q): base_url = "https://api.duckduckgo.com/?q={}&format=json" resp = requests.get(base_url.format(urllib.parse.quote(q))) json =…
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How to stop search engines (duck duck go/google in particular) to cut titles of web pages

Some titles of search results get cut of with three dots (...). This is very annoying, especialy when you search for coding errors, because the relevant information is at the end of the title. See example: Is there a possibility to make Duck Duck…
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Whenever I click on search button without typing anything on search field it takes me too home page of Duck Duck Go, How can I disable that?

I have created a search box which search through Duck Duck Go, It's perfectly working but the problem is that when I click on search button without typing anything on text field it takes user to duck duck go search home page which I don't want here.…
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Ubuntu 20.04 weird extra additon to URLs after performing searches

I started noticing something interesting as I perform internet searches using DuckDuckGo in Firefox on Ubuntu. After I hit Enter, this gets added to the URL: &t=canonical&atb=v226-1rf&ia=web Is this a concern for my searches being sent to Canonical…
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How to get quick answers in Google or DuckDuckGo using Python

I have an AI Assistant project and I want it to search in internet. I want to use Google Quick Answer Box or DuckDuckGo Instant Answer API for Python. I saw other questions but they didn't help me so much. Here is an example what I want to…
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how do duckduckgo spice IA secondary API calls get their parameters?

I have been looking through the spice instant answer source code. Yes, I know it is in maintenance mode, but I am still curious. The documentation makes it fairly clear that the primary spice to API gets its numerical parameters $1, $2, etc. from…
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duckduckgo.com to get the first N results for the specified phrase, using Net::HTTP ruby

I am trying to parse results from duckduckgo search with Net::HTTP and store the links of the results of the array. However the result comes as a string. Any idea how get it any other type of data back as result or how to get the links from the…
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disabling left and right arrows on a website that uses them for navigation (duckDuckGo)

Duckduckgo.com has keyboard navigation that lets you hit the left and right arrows to go from web results, to image results, news and maps. All good, except when I'm browsing using my wacom tablet. If I scroll with the tablet and I accidentally…
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Allow safe.duckduckgo.com but block duckduckgo.com on Mac (potentially in the hosts file)?

I want to completely disallow duckduckgo.com on my computer and only allow safe.duckduckgo.com to be reachable in any browser (on macOS High Sierra). My initial thought was to somehow specify that in the hosts file (can be opened using sudo nano…
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