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Hide w3schools on DuckDuckGo by Inan Hira

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Review by nasso
by nasso, 4 years ago
2 reviews
  • by aminomancer, 3 years ago
    Edit: Well, it seems to only work if I manually type in duckduckgo.com and navigate to the page and then use the searchbar on that page. But I use Firefox's duckduckgo search engine. Not as my default search engine but as a one-off search engine. That is, I type "@ddg w3schools" into the address bar and hit enter. And w3schools.com results will still show up on the page. See this URL for example: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=w3schools&ia=web

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    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hi @aminomancer.

    I can confirm that @ddg search shortcut works fine on Firefox 102.0 and Firefox Developer Edition 103.0b5.

    When I use `@ddg` shortcut to search for w3schools (`@ddg w3schools`), I see some other websites with w3schools in their hostname (w3schools[dot]in, w3schools[dot]com[dot]cn etc), but the original website is not listed in the results. Of course, relevant queries like `@ddg caption html` or `@ddg html table` works as expected, and removes w3s[dot]com results.

    I'll consider searching for all occurrences of w3school in the hostname so that those similar websites might be hidden. But I must say, that sounds a bit out of the scope of this add-on. Perhaps I can add that as an opt-in option, which sounds better.

    Thank you for your review and using the add-on.

    > Sorry, I just noticed your comment.

    > I'm on Firefox Developer Edition 103.0b5 (64-bit) and Firefox 102.0.1 (64-bit) and the extension works. I noticed that there are a lot of different websites using w3schools in their domainnames. I've been wondering if you're seeing one of those?

    > v1.0.4 should work fine. Please let me know.