From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2025-10-29, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Even worse, DuckDuckGo has stopped working.  Type something into the   
   > search bar and hit , and the status line says "Waiting for   
   > improving.duckduckgo.com", and hangs there forever.   
   >   
   > Firefox still works normally.  But I hate its user interface.   
      
   Last I counted, duckduckgo has 3 different interfaces, or at least   
   had. So, in case one of these is useful to you:   
      
   1) The regular one,   
   2) a "HTML" one, and   
   3) a "lite" one.   
      
   2. https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/, which is blank here when it has no   
      search query (possibly some CSS styling on their side?; search query   
      goes in the "q" GET parameter (or at least that works here*) and that   
      produces a readable results page); I guess I rarely see the front   
      page issue because I use it through a search plugin.   
      
   3. https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/ (This seems to rely on POST   
      parameters, which might be why I don't use it often? Does accept a   
      "?q=..." in the initial request, though.)   
      
   My experiences with 2 and 3 are with JS disabled (via NoScript), so it's   
   possible something breaks with JS enabled, although I'd hope "HTML" and   
   "lite" would also mean "no JS"...   
      
   * Some search engine interfaces have options to choose between POST and   
     GET parameters, I don't recall whether that is the case for DuckDuckGo   
     or not.   
      
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