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Considering this is a well-known, well-advertised feature from many many many years ago, and has long been the way they do things, it's not going to suddenly ch

• ignoramous 4y ago
  Considering it is a misfeature, I'd rather they think twice: I'm neither on a older browser nor do I disable JavaScript and yet I'm subject to ddg's terribly slow redirects.
  • allarm 4y ago
    > terribly slow redirects Huh? Ive just checked with multiple links, it’s quite fast. I don’t think that user experience that can be measured in fractions of second can be referred as “terribly slow”.
    • ignoramous 4y ago
      Latency is a long tailed distribution, and that's discounting the fact that various regions in the world won't see similar perf. Given the number of times I use ddg in a day, I usually hit slow redirects more often than not. I mean, we didn't go from http1 to http2 / vps to edge / tcp to quic only for ddg to add an additional redirect.
      • allarm 4y ago
        > various regions won’t see similar perf How’s the latency of ddg redirects depends on the region? > given the number of times I use ddg in a day What’s you estimation? A hundred? It’s something like a minute or two of accumulated time. It’s not even worth mentioning. Also I doubt that the redirect delay should be taken in account at all. The workflow may vary (obviously) but I normally open a link in a separate tab. By the time you click on this tab all the redirect work has finished. What’s your workflow and how does the redirect delay impact it?