DuckDuckgo Settings Gone

[Mattches]

@Stve,
I’ve actually seen something like this happen before. I’m on mobile right now but try reading through this thread and see if any of the information helps with your issue:

Duck Duck Go behavior broken after Brave Update

Followup: The final note from @sriram gives me a further hypothesis on how I might have spiraled into the situation. When I updated the Brave configuration, it appears I needed to reset “all scripts allowed” on all my trusted sites as I visited them. That would have included, of course, DDG. On the first search from the context menu using DDG as the default, Brave would have given me the message that javascript was disallowed. I then would have reset to “all scripts allowed”, but, because I was…