I have been using DuckDuckGo for some time now but stopped lately because I notice something fishy. When you hover over a link the bar at the bottom of the screen displays the link address to make you believe clicking on that link will go to that address, but if you look closely at it when you click it flashes "Sending Request..." then "Waiting for https://duckduckgo.com/" and finally "Waiting for https://what-you-clicked.com/". So they are redirecting all the search results so they know who clicked what. G
It's so their system will strip out referrals, thus increasing your privacy: the site you end up on won't know what search terms you used to get there.
My Major Concern with DuckDuckGo (Score:2, Insightful)
I have been using DuckDuckGo for some time now but stopped lately because I notice something fishy. When you hover over a link the bar at the bottom of the screen displays the link address to make you believe clicking on that link will go to that address, but if you look closely at it when you click it flashes "Sending Request..." then "Waiting for https://duckduckgo.com/" and finally "Waiting for https://what-you-clicked.com/". So they are redirecting all the search results so they know who clicked what. G
Re:My Major Concern with DuckDuckGo (Score:5, Informative)
It's so their system will strip out referrals, thus increasing your privacy: the site you end up on won't know what search terms you used to get there.
Re: (Score:2)