Today Duckduckgo began launching with a new inner-face. Strange colors here and there and a row of about eight icons below the duck showing social media sites that one could click on. After a bit I was able to get back to plain Duckduckgo as it should be. Anyone else seeing this?
No, that is all your stuff. The junk I saw were links in a row below the duck and various colors doing a sort of LED thing. No matter, I guess. I took care of it. Interesting no one else has committed on this.
you forgot to tell about the used browser and - if installed - the used adblocker. DDG is going to be a paid ad platform like adblock plus and its "acceptable ads".
Oh right. Yeah, I'm scared to uninstall it as one of its bugs is that sometimes it won't re-install on Ubuntu.
well, at least it's true to its name: "bugvaldi" (as you call it). joking aside, maybe you should give the portable version a try next time it does that.
i didn't get no bugs with it on windows so far but i read many complaining about how buggy it is on linux and android.
The desktop isn't buggy on Windows. It isn't buggy on macOS. There are overheating issues on MacBooks. On Linux it's a bugfest. I wouldn't even try the portable on Linux.
might come. its android app will have a whitelist for acceptable ads. currently i dont have doubt they will implement this feature for the ddg page. for the issue here - google choses from time to time some users for experimental ui for their page, it might be possible that Rainwaker was such victim for ddg.