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There was a rant by some other HN user about how DDG owns "duck.com" yet refuses to just point it to a search page.

• godelski 7y ago
  duck.com DOES redirect to duckduckgo.com. IIRC Google used to own duck.com and wouldn't redirect, but once DDG got ownership they redirected it.
  • krackers 7y ago
    Visiting the page incognito, you're hit with a modal dialogue that you have to dismiss before you can search.
    • godelski 7y ago
      This does not happen in FireFox. Are you suggesting Google is still playing dumb games?
      • jobigoud 7y ago
        I can repro this in Firefox. Are you disabling Javascript?
        • godelski 7y ago
          Ahhh found it. uBlock was preventing it. I can reproduce now.
  • zozbot234 7y ago
    > IIRC Google used to own duck.com and wouldn't redirect AIUI duck.com used to be a redirect-- to google.com. Very confusing for actual DDG users. IIRC Google got the domain as part of acquiring On2, some sort of video codec company, at a time when DDG wasn't nearly as popular as it is today.