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We do not store IPs or have any personally identifying cookies (actually no cookies whatsoever by default). We don't store user agents either, which have also b
by epi0Bauqu 16y ago
We do not store IPs or have any personally identifying cookies (actually no cookies whatsoever by default). We don't store user agents either, which have also been shown to be able to uniquely identify you. Also, "partial anonymization" has been shown time and time again not to work. More details on our privacy stuff here: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html
- Groxx 16y agoYeah, there's been flack about Google's anonymization before. Specifically, they apparently remove the last 8 digits. Which allows you to (partially) reconstruct (some) people by tracing IP + cookie. A failed anonymization, absolutely, but blockable if you are already taking steps to actually guard your privacy online, as part-way-there is almost the same as nowhere-near when you have enough data. Solved everywhere, of course, by anonymizing your IP address and blocking the cookie. And as you give your IP to the site you visit through DDG, as well as to their advertisers if you're not proactively blocking them (and those tools can fail / be nullified by a server transmission), extreme measures are the only effective means of actually protecting your privacy. As such, I don't find those two steps to be at all unexpected for someone who actually wishes to guard their privacy.