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by blfr 4113 days ago
If you're doing that, you may as well define keyword searches in your browser. Which is the ultimate privacy because redirection to the appropriate search engine happens locally.

I have g for Google, gl for feeling lucky in Google, w for Wikipedia, imdb, yt, and many more I never use.

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I was doing that for a long time in Chrome. Eventually I switched to Firefox and found out that I can't do it on every site and that I often lost all the shortcuts I had created when upgrading browsers or switching machines. Now with DDG I have don't need to worry about it.
I do it on Firefox. It's just a bookmark, so you only need to synchronize bookmarks.