Description of the issue: I turned on the option to search with duckduckgo in private browsing mode. However, when type something in and hit enter, it redirects me to google search instead of duckduckgo search How can this issue be reproduced? Open brave browser in private mode Type in anything …

Yes, of course I did. There doesn’t seem to be a problem now though, I fixed it by resetting the browser.

DuckDuckGo search automatically redirects to google in incognito mode

stroxvfx July 17, 2020, 9:34am 2

I don’t seem to be having this issue. Are you sure you have enabled the DuckDuckGo switch on the incognito tab? ; as shown here:

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