[PLUG-TALK] Can't get rid of DuckDuckGo

[Dick Steffens]

On 4/16/23 20:55, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Suddenly today every time I search now DuckDuckGo gives me constant
> ads. Furthermore somehow they have managed to make DuckDuckGo immune to
> the ministrations of the ad blockers I have installed in Chromium.
> Moreover, I decided to switch to a different search engine, and I
> discovered a new one in the drop-down list - Ecosia. I selected it, but
> when I try to search I still get DuckDuckGo. Ecosia is still selected
> in Chromium settings, and I even restarted Chromium, but DuckDuckGo
> won't turn loose of the browser.
>
> How can I get rid of DuckDuckGo?

When I switched from Firefox to Brave I didn't add Ghostery, and I 
haven't been bothered by ads when I use DuckDuckGo.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens