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Odd Charcter in Search Text Box

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dwightrph
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I have spent two days trying to fix this issue. When I visit various YouTube websites or do some other searches I end up with Odd Characters in my Search Text Box Auto Complete. See the attached Screen Shot. I have Firefox set to clear all site data when I close the browser. I have even done a clear History manually two times and occasionally the characters still show up. Is this a DEAL breaker you bet your cookies it is. I am having trouble trusting your claims about privacy.....

I have spent two days trying to fix this issue. When I visit various YouTube websites or do some other searches I end up with Odd Characters in my Search Text Box Auto Complete. See the attached Screen Shot. I have Firefox set to clear all site data when I close the browser. I have even done a clear History manually two times and occasionally the characters still show up. Is this a DEAL breaker you bet your cookies it is. I am having trouble trusting your claims about privacy.....
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cor-el
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Those are CJK characters (Chinese, Japanese. Korean), in your case maybe Japanese.

Are you using a VPN or proxy to connect to internet as that is a possible cause for DDG showing them as a suggestion ?

dwightrph
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cor-el thanks for the response I have no VPN unless my ISP is using one and I do not know about it. I do go through cloudflare with the 1.1.1.1 concept but I doubt they are routing traffic to any of the Chinese, Japanese. Korean countries

Bob Owen
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Hi Dwight, thanks for the email, replying here so that other people can find it if they have a similar issue.

I believe that the suggestions there are being generated by DuckDuckGo, so it might be worth trying to contact them. Here is their help site: https://help.duckduckgo.com/

I don't know how they determine language, but one thing that you could check is your locale. If you navigate to about:support, there is a section called "Internationalisation & Localisation" a fair way down the page.