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# Bang
*This is a fork of [unduck](https://unduck.link) by [Theo](https://github.com/t3dotgg/unduck).*
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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.
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https://bang.gbrown.org?q=%s
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## 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.
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Theo 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.