DuckDuckGo appends "ed" to search term in Brave

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I have had this problem with Brave in the past, and it has now returned to haunt me.

With DuckDuckGo as my search engine, every search I enter has “ed” appended in the DuckDuckGo page and search bar that DDG presents.

For example, if I enter the two words
incremental improvement
in the search bar, the DDG results page presents me with a search term of
incremental improvemented
and the original (Brave) search bar displays
duckduckgo.com/?q=incremental+improvemented&ia=web

I started using Safari for a while, some months ago, and I have been back with Brave for a few weeks, and now it has suddenly recurred.

This problem does not occur with DDG in a Chrome window.

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Hey @pbw ! Welcome to the community :smiley:

When you are doing the search, are you searching via the actual website or using the address bar at the top?

Porridge

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I’m searching using the address bar, which then takes me to the website.

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Go to brave://settings/searchEngines => DuckDuckGo => click on the 3 dots next to Query URL => Edit, and let us know what the last row says.

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I have the same issue. When I try searching with Brave I need to receive an email for access

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I cannot change my private default search engine from DDG to Brave.
What I have found useful is when opening Brave and typing in the search engine I am shown 2 icons, Brave and DDG, I click on Brave ‘of course’.
If I click on Brave I get results from Brave, if I click on DDG I get results from DDG. I have uploaded the image.
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Your issue is unrelated to this thread, but what you’re experiencing is a bug.

Github report:

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I believe we found the issue.

Let’s try the following:

  1. Go to brave://settings/searchEngines
  2. Click on Add
  3. Add DuckDuckGo, entering the details from the screenshot below
  4. Temporarily set the newly-added DuckDuckGo search engine as default

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That seems to work! Thanks.

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You’re welcome :wink:

Now, that we made sure the newly-added instance of DuckDuckGo works properly, you could remove the old instance, and edit the new instance’s details however you like.

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