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Spot can not connect to some search engines

  • /e/ version: 1.14-s stable
  • Device model(s): FP4
  • Developer mode enabled: yes
  • Device rooted: no
  • Trackers blocker enabled: yes

Summary

Spot can not reach DuckDuckGo, Qwant or Startpage.

The problem

Steps to reproduce

Configure Spot with only DuckDuckGo, Qwant and Startpage as "General" search engines.

What is the current behavior?

An error message appears with different problems: access denied for DuckDuckGo, server API error for Qwant and suspended CAPTCHA for Startpage.

What is the expected correct behavior?

You should see search results from these three search engines.

Technical informations

Relevant logs (adb logcat)

Relevant screenshots

Screenshot_20230827-123309_Browser_1

Solutions

Workaround

Possible fixes