Re: Off Topic: Firefox and Duckduckgo Failure

2021-11-29 Thread Terence
Many thanks - now it's back to normal! (whatever that is in these Covid days!) On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 at 12:17, piorunz wrote: > On 29/11/2021 12:02, Terence wrote: > > Many thanks, Piotr, that's done it. Since the early 1990s I have always > > been impressed by the support given on the Debian lis

Re: Off Topic: Firefox and Duckduckgo Failure

2021-11-29 Thread piorunz
On 29/11/2021 12:02, Terence wrote: Many thanks, Piotr, that's done it. Since the early 1990s I have always been impressed by the support given on the Debian lists - wonderful! You are most welcome! Now as you have working firefox, you can import everything from old profile if you are using Mo

Re: Off Topic: Firefox and Duckduckgo Failure

2021-11-29 Thread Terence
;mailto:harrywea...@tutanota.com>: > > > > Running debian/stable, amd64, fully updated. No problems here. > > > > Just a guess: Are you running NoScript plugin im Firefox? Maybe it > > is not > > trusted. > > > > Have fun! > > &

Re: Off Topic: Firefox and Duckduckgo Failure

2021-11-29 Thread piorunz
;: Running debian/stable, amd64, fully updated. No problems here. Just a guess: Are you running NoScript plugin im Firefox? Maybe it is not trusted. Have fun! Hans > > Duckduckgo shows its search page in Firefox as normal, but returns no > > search

Re: Off Topic: Firefox and Duckduckgo Failure

2021-11-29 Thread Terence
Running debian/stable, amd64, fully updated. No problems here. > > Just a guess: Are you running NoScript plugin im Firefox? Maybe it is not > trusted. > > Have fun! > > Hans > > > Duckduckgo shows its search page in Firefox as normal, but returns no > > > searc

Re: Off Topic: Firefox and Duckduckgo Failure

2021-11-28 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 28. November 2021, 20:22:25 CET schrieb harrywea...@tutanota.com: Running debian/stable, amd64, fully updated. No problems here. Just a guess: Are you running NoScript plugin im Firefox? Maybe it is not trusted. Have fun! Hans > > Duckduckgo shows its search page in Fire

Re: Off Topic: Firefox and Duckduckgo Failure

2021-11-28 Thread Nicolas George
Terence (12021-11-28): > Duckduckgo shows its search page in Firefox as normal, but returns no > search result. It works fine in Chromium as usual. > > Has anyone else the same problem/ I do not know if it is related, but I have observed problems of parts of some pages not di

Re: Off Topic: Firefox and Duckduckgo Failure

2021-11-28 Thread harryweaver
-- Sent with Tutanota, the secure & ad-free mailbox. 29 Nov 2021, 02:22 by terence.j...@gmail.com: > Duckduckgo shows its search page in Firefox as normal, but returns no search > result. It works fine in Chromium as usual. > > Has anyone else the same problem/ > &g

Re: Off Topic: Firefox and Duckduckgo Failure

2021-11-28 Thread Erwan David
Le 28/11/2021 à 17:22, Terence a écrit : Duckduckgo shows its search page in Firefox as normal, but returns no search result. It works fine in Chromium as usual. Has anyone else the same problem/ Works for me (but I do not use the firefox package, I use the upstream software)

Off Topic: Firefox and Duckduckgo Failure

2021-11-28 Thread Terence
Duckduckgo shows its search page in Firefox as normal, but returns no search result. It works fine in Chromium as usual. Has anyone else the same problem/

Re: 'ddgr' cli for duckduckgo snafu?

2021-02-23 Thread Michael Howard
On 23/02/2021 08:13, Darac Marjal wrote: On 22/02/2021 22:56, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: I had the same experience. Gave up on duckduckgo but one time it came thru in a pinch. Why give up on the search engine merely because a rogue util has gone goofy

Re: 'ddgr' cli for duckduckgo snafu?

2021-02-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On 22/02/2021 22:56, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > >> I had the same experience. Gave up on duckduckgo but one time it came >> thru >> in a pinch. > > Why give up on the search engine merely because a rogue util has gone &

Re: 'ddgr' cli for duckduckgo snafu?

2021-02-22 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:21:30 -0500 (EST) Bob Bernstein wrote: > I have v. 1.6 via apt-get on an uptodate buster amd64 system. > > Every attempt to run a search yields "No results," even if I > specify 'Boston Red Sox'. > > Recommendations? Calm soothing thoughts? > > Thank you. just dow

Re: 'ddgr' cli for duckduckgo snafu?

2021-02-22 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 2:15 PM Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > I had the same experience. Gave up on duckduckgo but one time it came > thru > > in a pinch. > > Why give up on the search engine merely because a rogue util has &g

Re: 'ddgr' cli for duckduckgo snafu?

2021-02-22 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: I had the same experience. Gave up on duckduckgo but one time it came thru in a pinch. Why give up on the search engine merely because a rogue util has gone goofy? I went looking for duckduckgo search syntax and found what I need, which is

Re: 'ddgr' cli for duckduckgo snafu?

2021-02-22 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: I had the same experience. Gave up on duckduckgo but one time it came thru in a pinch. Why give up on the search engine merely because a rogue util has gone goofy? I went looking for duckduckgo search syntax and found what I need, which is not

Re: 'ddgr' cli for duckduckgo snafu?

2021-02-22 Thread Darac Marjal
On 22/02/2021 18:21, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I have v. 1.6 via apt-get on an uptodate buster amd64 system. > > Every attempt to run a search yields "No results," even if I specify > 'Boston Red Sox'. > > Recommendations? Calm soothing thoughts? This sounds like https://github.com/jarun/ddgr/issues

Re: 'ddgr' cli for duckduckgo snafu?

2021-02-22 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Is this soothing enough? I had the same experience. Gave up on duckduckgo but one time it came thru in a pinch. Thank you. > > -- > RSB > >

'ddgr' cli for duckduckgo snafu?

2021-02-22 Thread Bob Bernstein
I have v. 1.6 via apt-get on an uptodate buster amd64 system. Every attempt to run a search yields "No results," even if I specify 'Boston Red Sox'. Recommendations? Calm soothing thoughts? Thank you. -- RSB

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-20 Thread Reco
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 03:41:34AM +, Finn wrote: > arne wrote: > > I am allergic to ads. > > > > So I use an adblocker, ublock origin. > > I have squid and privoxy proxy's running. > > Have a local searx as search engine. > > > > Are you running Searx instance in your system locally? If so,

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-20 Thread Finn
arne wrote: > I am allergic to ads. > > So I use an adblocker, ublock origin. > I have squid and privoxy proxy's running. > Have a local searx as search engine. > Are you running Searx instance in your system locally? If so, how? Searx isn't packed for Debian yet. Probably installed using Docker

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread steef
, yes. because it is possible to avoid these sites for only one session using duckduckgo. the next session one must again block out these sites. that is cumbersome and annoying allthough i understand that duckduckgo somehow must get paid for. How do you block out those search results? Do you put

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread steef
wrote: --< snip >-- I have a similar setup as yours but am getting no popups from my browser (firefox) and no ad blocker at all as I m using legit sites that have income from ads. Why do you think the popups originate from duckduckgo? @steef, Are you actually getting pop-up ads, or are yo

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:50:05 +0100 Joe wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:19:37 -0400 > Celejar wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:23:44 +0200 > > wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 06:26:20PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:52:07 +0200 > > > > wrote: > > > > ..

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread Joe
On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:19:37 -0400 Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:23:44 +0200 > wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 06:26:20PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:52:07 +0200 > > > wrote: > > ... > > > >I certainly need to use numerous

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:23:44 +0200 wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 06:26:20PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:52:07 +0200 > > wrote: ... > >I certainly need to use numerous sites (bill > > paying, banking, etc.) that require JS to function. > > Th

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread steef
rowser (firefox) and no ad blocker at all as I m using legit sites that have income from ads. Why do you think the popups originate from duckduckgo? @steef, Are you actually getting pop-up ads, or are you just seeing search results that might be considered advertisements as they focus on a particular c

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Sunday, 18 Aug 2019 at 22:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > This is actually for me a filter criterion: if a site doesn't work > with javascript, chances are high that I avoid it. I do make some > exceptions, but very few. Ditto. My exceptions are my bank and flickr. All else I access via eww in

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread tomas
On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 06:26:20PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:52:07 +0200 > wrote: [... on disabling javascript] > Question: is this due to a belief that such sites are (at least for > your use cases) at best marginally more useful than their non-JS > utilizing alternatives,

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread arne
I am allergic to ads. So I use an adblocker, ublock origin. I have squid and privoxy proxy's running. Have a local searx as search engine. 99.% of the visited sites are without ads, no tracking. Hope this helps. > Question: is this due to a belief that such sites are (at least for > your

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread ghe
On 8/18/19 5:16 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > I use NoScript to enable JavaScript only where I want it. Yeah. And Firefox has a checkbox in the prefs to block pop-ups. I rarely see a pop-up any more. I have a hard time believing DDG is what's doing your pop-ups. It'd destroy their reputation.

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 19/08/2019 08:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: This is actually for me a filter criterion: if a site doesn't work with javascript, chances are high that I avoid it. I do make some exceptions, but very few. I use NoScript to enable JavaScript only where I want it. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Da

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:52:07 +0200 wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 09:35:53PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:20:08 -0500 > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I personally find that JavaScript and cookies rarely provide *ME* any > > > functionality of interest. I surf

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread steef
On 18-08-19 22:04, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, August 18, 2019 01:16:59 PM nektarios wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:29:49 +0200 steef wrote: hi folks, last days I get some slightly disturbing info about the browser_ad DuckDuckgo. some say it's malicious 'malware', ot

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread tomas
On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 09:35:53PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:20:08 -0500 > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > I personally find that JavaScript and cookies rarely provide *ME* any > > functionality of interest. I surf with both disabled. I don't > > experience problems I see o

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread Joe
On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:20:08 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > > I personally find that JavaScript and cookies rarely provide *ME* any > functionality of interest. I surf with both disabled. I don't > experience problems I see often reported. YMMV It does vary indeed. It seems to me that hardly

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, August 18, 2019 01:16:59 PM nektarios wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:29:49 +0200 > > steef wrote: > > hi folks, > > > > last days I get some slightly disturbing info about the browser_ad > > DuckDuckgo. some say it's malicious 'malware'

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread steef
On 18-08-19 21:20, Richard Owlett wrote: On 08/18/2019 01:34 PM, steef wrote: On 18-08-19 19:16, nektarios wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:29:49 +0200 steef wrote: hi folks, last days I get some slightly disturbing info about the browser_ad DuckDuckgo. some say it's malicious &#x

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/18/2019 01:34 PM, steef wrote: On 18-08-19 19:16, nektarios wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:29:49 +0200 steef wrote: hi folks, last days I get some slightly disturbing info about the browser_ad DuckDuckgo. some say it's malicious 'malware', others seem to be happy wi

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread steef
On 18-08-19 19:16, nektarios wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:29:49 +0200 steef wrote: hi folks, last days I get some slightly disturbing info about the browser_ad DuckDuckgo. some say it's malicious 'malware', others seem to be happy with the popup of unwanted ads which ca

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread nektarios
On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:29:49 +0200 steef wrote: > hi folks, > > last days I get some slightly disturbing info about the browser_ad > DuckDuckgo. some say it's malicious 'malware', others seem to be > happy with the popup of unwanted ads which cannot be blocked >

duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread steef
hi folks, last days I get some slightly disturbing info about the browser_ad DuckDuckgo. some say it's malicious 'malware', others seem to be happy with the popup of unwanted ads which cannot be blocked permanently: and the last thing makes me suspicious. please, if it is possi