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".