DuckDuckGo Onion search for Tor private tab

[bsclifton]

Carried over from brave/browser-laptop#14601

Instead of using https://duckduckgo.com for Private Tab with Tor, use their onion site: https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion for searching

[riastradh-brave]

We talked to DuckDuckGo, and they asked that we continue to use https://duckduckgo.com for now. We'll consider this again in the future if their preference changes.

[ghost]

Can't you at least let a way to the user to add it manualy in the config ? (so like that you follow their demand but you let the final choice to the user)

[eljuno]

+1s from Community https://community.brave.com/t/use-onion-address-for-duckduckgo-in-tor-window/93908?u=eljuno

[thespencertupis]

@riastradh-brave What is the reasoning behind DDG asking that Brave not use the onion site?

[ghost]

@thespencertupis maybe the server who serve the onion's one isn't powerfull enought for accept many user.

[ron-wolf]

@riastradh-brave Thank you so much for being proactive with reaching out to DuckDuckGo about this. What was their stated reason, and can they be asked again, given the passage of 8 months?

[ron-wolf]

Also, what happened to issue #1513 and PR brave/brave-core#635? These both seem to concern what @Aelisya suggested, and yet I can’t use the functionality they aimed to implement.

[PeterDaveHello]

Similar issue on the Tor Browser project:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/21483

BTW: Onion v2 is deprecated (https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline)

DuckDuckGo now has a v3 url: https://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion

[bsclifton]

Closing in favor of #16955

Thanks for the heads up on the v3 url, @PeterDaveHello 😄