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In Google - do a search for hackernews. This site is the number one result. Right click on it, copy the link location and this is what is in your clipboard:

In Google - do a search for hackernews. This site is the number one result. Right click on it, copy the link location and this is what is in your clipboard: https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjtkqHs55HdAhXsI8AKHXhzAG4QFjAAegQIBBAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw3F-2xUE22tTvOxNDwVuff- https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web... In DuckDuckGo, you do the same search and also get the same top result, but when you copy the link location for that top result you get this: https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/

Const-me 8y ago
> when you copy the link location for that top result you get this: https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ I’m getting https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2F https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycom... Update: in Firefox I'm indeed getting https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ But I use MS Edge as primary browser, and for MS Edge, DDG returns me the above redirection URL.
- wallacoloo 8y ago
  I’ll bet this has something to do with the Referer header. Iirc DDG used to always use this forwarding method so that you don’t leak your search phrase to the site you’re going to. I wonder if now there’s a way for DDG to instruct Firefox to omit the Referer header (or if DDG detects that you have Firefox configured to not send the header), but that Edge still sends the Referer header?
  - Const-me 8y ago
    You’re right, I’ve found the article about that: https://duck.co/help/results/rduckduckgocom https://duck.co/help/results/rduckduckgocom And also found “Redirect (when necessary)” setting. I’ve switched off the setting and tested with web debugger. Apparently MS Edge respects the “referrer-policy: origin” HTTP header i.e. it only sends “Referer: https://duckduckgo.com/” https://duckduckgo.com/” without query strings attached. However, duckduckgo treat MS Edge the same way as IE, i.e. it doesn’t believe it’s not an older browser. I’ve wrote their support, hopefully they’ll fix soon. Meanwhile, I’ve switched off “Redirect (when necessary)” setting and it works OK on this PC.
def_true_false 8y ago
Undirect [1] (for Chrome) and Google search link fix (for Firefox) [2] can help with that. [1] https://github.com/xwipeoutx/undirect https://github.com/xwipeoutx/undirect [2] https://github.com/palant/searchlinkfix https://github.com/palant/searchlinkfix

Const-me 8y ago

> when you copy the link location for that top result you get this: https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ I’m getting https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2F https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycom... Update: in Firefox I'm indeed getting https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ But I use MS Edge as primary browser, and for MS Edge, DDG returns me the above redirection URL.

wallacoloo 8y ago
I’ll bet this has something to do with the Referer header. Iirc DDG used to always use this forwarding method so that you don’t leak your search phrase to the site you’re going to. I wonder if now there’s a way for DDG to instruct Firefox to omit the Referer header (or if DDG detects that you have Firefox configured to not send the header), but that Edge still sends the Referer header?
- Const-me 8y ago
  You’re right, I’ve found the article about that: https://duck.co/help/results/rduckduckgocom https://duck.co/help/results/rduckduckgocom And also found “Redirect (when necessary)” setting. I’ve switched off the setting and tested with web debugger. Apparently MS Edge respects the “referrer-policy: origin” HTTP header i.e. it only sends “Referer: https://duckduckgo.com/” https://duckduckgo.com/” without query strings attached. However, duckduckgo treat MS Edge the same way as IE, i.e. it doesn’t believe it’s not an older browser. I’ve wrote their support, hopefully they’ll fix soon. Meanwhile, I’ve switched off “Redirect (when necessary)” setting and it works OK on this PC.

def_true_false 8y ago

Undirect [1] (for Chrome) and Google search link fix (for Firefox) [2] can help with that. [1] https://github.com/xwipeoutx/undirect https://github.com/xwipeoutx/undirect [2] https://github.com/palant/searchlinkfix https://github.com/palant/searchlinkfix