Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy

Re:Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy by blindm on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:48PM (#25074777)

I've been trying to get search results for months now, and Qwant just fails everytime with a white screen of death. See screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/jUv6vm0

I've even tried with different IPs / VPN connections and it still refuses to show results.

Surely I'm not the only user who experiences this?

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Re:Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy by blinzy on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:54PM (#25074844)

That also happens to me if I disable javascript (and therefore get their Qwant Lite page).

However, it works if you use a non-English language:

https://lite.qwant.com/?l=de&q=foobar

https://lite.qwant.com/?l=en&q=foobar <-- this won't work (or omitting l=en)

https://lite.qwant.com/?l=es&q=foobar

https://lite.qwant.com/?l=fr&q=foobar

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Re:Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy by blindm on Friday November 13, 2020 @06:31AM (#25081230)

But why does one have to resort to hacks like this? I want the English version to work. Obviously Qwant have to iron this out, but I've waited months and they haven't even fixed it. It's a huge bug. It's like they just abandoned the project.

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Re:Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy by blinzy on Friday November 13, 2020 @09:52AM (#25082783)

Oh I definitely agree with you, I just found that workaround above because I was really frustrated as I don't see any advantage to having javascript enabled on my searches and was used to not needing it in Google, Duckduckgo, Ecosia, and other search engines...

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