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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# Unduck + +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. + +``` +https://unduck.link?q=%s +``` + +## How is it that much faster? + +DuckDuckGo does their redirects server side. Their DNS is...not always great. Result is that it often takes ages. + +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.