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   Justine Smithies (justine@snac.smithies.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 22:40:45 JST Justine Smithies
   Is it just me or this happening elsewhere on #DuckDuckGo ?
   If I go to start.duckduckgo.com and then enter a search say #FreeBSD . If I then click on a result any of them I get the Nginx screen with 400 Bad Request.
   Google works fine and other sites it's just #DDG
   
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 22:40:41 JST silverwizard

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     @justine Fascinating - that link causes a 400 for me - but searching for "gardener's world" with DDG lets me go there.

     What's the network tab in the firefox dev tools saying? It seems like something is wrapping your clicks and it's out of date maybe?

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     Justine Smithies (justine@snac.smithies.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 22:40:42 JST Justine Smithies

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     Nope no box named freebsd on my network. It doesn't just happen with that search term it can be any search term. I tried and get the same results.
     
     For example I just searched Gargening and clicked on gardenersworld.com but get the same 400 bad request. The link I copied from that result is :
     
     https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gardenersworld.com%2F&notrut=duckduck_in
     
     If I do the same from bing or google or whatever it all works. This just affects #DuckDuckGo for some reason ???
     
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     social elephant in the room (tseitr@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 22:40:43 JST social elephant in the room

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     @justine cannot reproduce

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     social elephant in the room (tseitr@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 22:40:43 JST social elephant in the room

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     @justine could it be that you have a dns setting configured to search on your local domain and that you have a box called freebsd?

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 22:49:07 JST silverwizard

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     @justine Oh I'd misread - sorry.

     That's wilder.

     That sounds like there's a redirect that is getting eaten by escaping somewhere. Is there any debug output?

     (I tried qute recently... but it was too slow for my... not a sensible computer)

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     Justine Smithies (justine@snac.smithies.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 22:49:08 JST Justine Smithies

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     • silverwizard
     This is only affecting my #Qutebrowser , #Firefox works just fine.
     
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     Justine Smithies (justine@snac.smithies.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 23:14:36 JST Justine Smithies

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     • silverwizard
     Finally I have tracked down my #Qutebrowser issue that only seemed to mess with #DuckDuckGo search results returning an 400 Bad Request
     It seems in my config.py I had the following user agent line.
     
     c.content.headers.user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 ({os_info}) QtWebEngine/{qt_version} qutebrowser/{qutebrowser_version} Chromium/67.0.1'
     
     I changed it to the same as #Firefox was using and bingo it all works !
     
     c.content.headers.user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0'
     
     Who's a happy bunny now.
     
     CC: @silverwizard@convenient.email
     
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     Justine Smithies (justine@snac.smithies.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 23:14:37 JST Justine Smithies

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     • silverwizard
     Not sure I'm investing things just now as this is really weird.
     
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 23:14:46 JST silverwizard

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     @justine So it's DDG's fault for trying to be clever!
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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 23:10:30 JST silverpill

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     • The Tor Project
     • Hyolobrika
     • Stefano Marinelli
     • frogzone
     • Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧

     @frogzone Speaking of Tor Browser, does it still set clearnet DDG as a default search engine? It would be better to use onion by default.

     @torproject
     @Hyolobrika @stefano @jeffcliff @justine

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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 23:10:32 JST frogzone

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     • Stefano Marinelli

     @justine i don't know whether running javascript adds another step and maybe there was a malfunction in that step. i use tor browser (safest setting) and it disables any javascript, and it works. i must admit that i dont use ddg much these days tho so maybe it does redirection links from time to time, when it wants to learn more.

     i HAVE found another set of concerning issues tho, that relate mostly to privacy.... they will be forthcoming

     @stefano

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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 23:10:32 JST frogzone

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     • The Tor Project
     • Hyolobrika
     • silverpill
     • Stefano Marinelli
     • frogzone
     • Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧

     @stefano @justine TIL the alleged paragon of privacy, #duckduckgo, not only redirects visitors off their onion site when u visit it (at least it does with js disabled, which is the safest way to use #torbrowser), but ddg also have a separate domain (external-content.duckduckgo.com) for serving the little icons alongside each search result, and that is put through THE CLEARNET!! This means that if an entity happened to provide the guard and exit node then they can possibly track the user even if they are using tor browser!

     oh and #ddg is served from #microsoft servers (m$ has military contracts so make of that what u will)

     who wants succulent roasted duck? because im in my right mind to rake some burning hot coals over this duck, does it deserve to be lauded as highly as it has been. I say NO. Dear @torproject can u c this? do we need to do a call to action to help other search engines take pride of place in tor browser?

     @Hyolobrika @jeffcliff @silverpill #privacy #bigtech #bigdata