diff --git a/docs/dev/engine_overview.rst b/docs/dev/engine_overview.rst
index 7007e7b9..b5118197 100644
--- a/docs/dev/engine_overview.rst
+++ b/docs/dev/engine_overview.rst
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ headers             set         HTTP header information
 data                set         HTTP data information
 cookies             set         HTTP cookies
 verify              bool        Performing SSL-Validity check
+allow_redirects     bool        Follow redirects
 max_redirects       int         maximum redirects, hard limit
 soft_max_redirects  int         maximum redirects, soft limit. Record an error but don't stop the engine
 raise_for_httperror bool        True by default: raise an exception if the HTTP code of response is >= 300
diff --git a/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py b/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py
index 638f1211..92431b13 100644
--- a/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py
+++ b/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py
@@ -75,12 +75,18 @@ def request(query, params):
         params['data']['kl'] = region_code
         params['cookies']['kl'] = region_code
 
-    params['data']['df'] = time_range_dict.get(params['time_range'], '')
+    if params['time_range'] in time_range_dict:
+        params['data']['df'] = time_range_dict[params['time_range']]
+
+    params['allow_redirects'] = False
     return params
 
 
 # get response from search-request
 def response(resp):
+    if resp.status_code == 303:
+        return []
+
     # ping
     headers_ping = dict_subset(resp.request.headers, ['User-Agent', 'Accept-Encoding', 'Accept', 'Cookie'])
     get(url_ping, headers=headers_ping)
diff --git a/searx/search/processors/online.py b/searx/search/processors/online.py
index 0cc175e1..df0ab8c2 100644
--- a/searx/search/processors/online.py
+++ b/searx/search/processors/online.py
@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ class OnlineProcessor(EngineProcessor):
         if max_redirects:
             request_args['max_redirects'] = max_redirects
 
+        # allow_redirects
+        if 'allow_redirects' in params:
+            request_args['allow_redirects'] = params['allow_redirects']
+
         # soft_max_redirects
         soft_max_redirects = params.get('soft_max_redirects', max_redirects or 0)