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# Unduck

     

       
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DuckDuckGo's bang redirects are too slow. Add the following URL as a custom search engine to your browser. Enables all of DuckDuckGo's bangs to work, but much faster.

     

       
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https://unduck.link?q=%s

     

       
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## How is it that much faster?

     

       
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DuckDuckGo does their redirects server side. Their DNS is...not always great. Result is that it often takes ages.

     

       
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I solved this by doing all of the work client side. Once you've went to https://unduck.link once, the JS is all cache'd and will never need to be downloaded again. Your device does the redirects, not me.