| ▲ | Dwedit 6 days ago |
| How would you know if DuckDuckGo actually respected privacy? It's a black box. |
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| ▲ | mixmastamyk 6 days ago | parent [-] |
| DDG reports all clicks to links.duckduckgo.com and improving.duckduckgo.com, etc. Which AdGuard seems to block, and maybe one of my browser settings/extensions as well. |
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| ▲ | Dwedit 6 days ago | parent [-] | | Allegedly they do that for "referer protection" reasons to hide the search term that was used to get to the site. | | |
| ▲ | wizzwizz4 5 days ago | parent [-] | | This is separate to referrer protection, which is only active as-needed – in most modern browsers, DuckDuckGo's referrer protection never kicks in, because they support rel="noopener noreferrer". |
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