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Clicking on a search result now redirects through the DDG server. So, Gabriel, if you woke up tomorrow as your Evil twin, you could do click tracking with no f
by joeyh 16y ago
Clicking on a search result now redirects through the DDG server.
So, Gabriel, if you woke up tomorrow as your Evil twin, you could do click tracking with no further user-visible change of behavior.
Google used to do stealth click tracking via javascript. I have not kept up with whether they still do, but it was that kind of thing that influenced me to switch to DDG.
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoMaybe I'm missing something here, but I don't see the privacy leak given that I don't know who you are.
- joeyh 16y agoWell, Evil Gabe probably would know who I am based on all the logs of my DDG searches. Adding click tracking to that is just more data. :)
- lftl 16y agoThis did get me thinking about if there was a way to obscure the referrer without hitting the server side. Apparently in webkit-based browsers if you create an iframe, and inject some javascript to redirect to the desired link from inside the iframe the referrer doesn't get passed. Unfortunately it doesn't work in IE or FF, but I suppose there might be some trick. Quick proof of concept for webkit: http://junk.wehrenberg.us/t1.html http://junk.wehrenberg.us/t1.html EDIT: Apparently both FF and IE work fine if you redirect using a meta refresh rather than js from inside the iframe. But that doesn't give you any way to bust out of the iframe. http://junk.wehrenberg.us/t3.html http://junk.wehrenberg.us/t3.html
- epi0Bauqu 16y agoI think I got this to work. Email me if you'd like to test it out with me!