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Easy solution is to use a non-default browser, such as iCab.

The dedicated app you've got is somewhat clunky, but it could be made a lot cooler if it was purposed not to "access DDG", but use DDG to "make research easier" or "look up that term". That would entail caching some of the results, maybe formatting a-la Readability, sorting them, bookmarking (with the help of a third-party service, e.g. Pinboard.in).

I have the app on the first home screen on all of my devices, but I don't use it all that often, because it is slow, because there's not much I can do with the results, and because it's totally useless without a solid uplink. Ideally, I would prefer it to keep the results of old searches and allow me to open them in other apps or review them later from another device, cf. nahodki.yandex.ru & google.com/history.

> Unfortunately, there isn't an easy solution for iOS that I know of without jailbreaking.

Is there really an easy solution with jailbreaking?

sure, SSH to your iOS device and add/edit a .plist entry in your editor of choice

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