>Whatever the reasons may be for this decision, it allows DDG to track all links that the user follows from the results page. That is no better than Google. It

>Whatever the reasons may be for this decision, it allows DDG to track all links that the user follows from the results page. That is no better than Google. It is not a privacy improvement in that regard. I don't think that DDG is trying to have independently auditable level of privacy guarantees. What they are selling is trust. The trust that major tech companies have squandered over the last decade. I trust a couple guys sitting in an office in Pennsylvania somewhere way more than the faceless behemoth that is Google at this point. Who knows if that trust is worthwhile, or if things won't end up going the same way, but I'm on their side for now.