diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_web.php b/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_web.php
index 52b357c..e0f7fa3 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_web.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_web.php
@@ -188,7 +188,10 @@ function vv_ai_web_degoog(string $q): ?array {
     $rows = [];
     foreach ($d['results'] ?? [] as $r) {
         $url = (string)($r['url'] ?? '');
-        if (preg_match('#^https?://(?:[a-z0-9-]+\.)*reddit\.com/r/[^/?#]+/?$#i', $url)) continue;
+        // Delimited with ~, not #. The character class has to exclude a literal # (a fragment),
+        // and with # as the delimiter PCRE ends the pattern there and the match silently never
+        // fires — which is exactly what happened, and it looked like the filter doing nothing.
+        if (preg_match('~^https?://(?:[a-z0-9-]+\.)*reddit\.com/r/[^/?#]+/?$~i', $url)) continue;
         $rows[] = ['title'   => $r['title'] ?? '',
                    'url'     => $url,
                    'snippet' => ($r['snippet'] ?? '') !== '' ? $r['snippet'] : ($r['content'] ?? '')];