Jamie Cullen
2026-03-30T16:20:10Z

@iron_bug

If you add this

noai.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%s

as a search engine in your Firefox settings (guessing you're on FF or a derivative...), and then make it the default search engine in the address bar, does that work if you search from theh address bar?

It seems to work fine on my Firefox. I'm getting no slop, and the no-JS results page.

But it's definitely a bit puzzling, because if I open up either of these pages

noai.duckduckgo.com/html?q=
noai.duckduckgo.com/html

I get a search bar, but when I search, I get a page that says "forbidden". And in the case of the first page, the URL looks identical to the one which is working when I search from the URL bar...

I've tested with Noscript on and off, with the same result.