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| author | Rodrigo Arias Mallo <rodarima@gmail.com> | 2025-09-28 20:26:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Rodrigo <rodarima@gmail.com> | 2025-09-28 23:10:55 +0200 |
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diff --git a/8/index.md b/8/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b1e86b --- /dev/null +++ b/8/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +Title: Duckduckgo search is broken +Author: rodarima +Created: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:20:42 +0000 +State: closed + +When searching a term via the duckduckgo default search option, all the results are broken. + +This seems to be happening because the results are a link to a duckduckgo redirection page, with a broken noscript+meta refresh tag inside the body: + +Query: https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/?kp=-1&q=arch +First link: https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2F&rut=da8bb6bd1cd584ec22ab762b3b772597b539d583acf75aaab0a45c2b330f4a90 + +Content: +``` +<html> +<head> + <meta name='referrer' content='origin'> +</head> +<body> + <script language='JavaScript'>window.parent.location.replace("https://archlinux.org/");</script> + <noscript><META http-equiv='refresh' content="0;URL=https://archlinux.org/"></noscript> +</body> +</html> +``` + +The bug section of dillo warns about it: + +``` +HTML warning: line 1, The required DOCTYPE declaration is missing. Handling as HTML4. +HTML warning: line 1, <head> lacks <title>. +HTML warning: line 1, This <meta> element must be inside the HEAD section. <-- here +``` + +The easiest solution would be to switch to the full duckduckgo page by default (not the lite version) which seems to work fine. + +--%-- +From: rodarima +Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2023 14:18:05 +0000 + +[Here](https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dillo/-/blob/master/debian/patches/fix-duckduckgo-shortcut-in-dillorc.patch) is another solution adding the `kd=-1` argument which avoids the redirection: + +```patch +Description: Fix DuckDuckGo shortcut to make result links working +Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian/org/924357 +Forwarded: no +Author: liftof+dbug@gmail.com + +--- a/dillorc ++++ b/dillorc +@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ + # You can enable multiple search_url strings at once and select from among + # them at runtime, with the first being the default. + # (the prefix serves to search from the Location Bar. e.g. "dd dillo image") +-search_url="dd DuckDuckGo (https) https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?kp=-1&q=%s" ++search_url="dd DuckDuckGo (https) https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?kp=-1&q=%s&kd=-1" + search_url="Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%s&go=Go" + search_url="Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/%s" + search_url="Startpage (https) https://www.startpage.com/do/search?query=%s" +```
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