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[โ€“] AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have never encountered that bug, seems like an issue with the duck duck go not doing proper url encoding. I daily Firefox on mobile and its the best option by far with all the available extensions and of course working adblock

[โ€“] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 0 points 2 days ago

It's got nothing to do with the specific search engine, it's Firefox thinking the URL itself is a search query and sending it as-is to the search engine.

I just tested it and it sent the URL to both DDG and to Google.