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IMO there is a privacy loss to you. Amazon should not get to know what search engine you use.
by nfoz 7y ago
IMO there is a privacy loss to you. Amazon should not get to know what search engine you use.
- dewey 7y agoThey just see your referrer anyway, doesn’t really matter if they have affiliate tags or not.
- franga2000 7y agoThat's fair, but the Referrer header already does that. It can be blocked, true, but either way this is just a single literal bit of data - I don't mind, but I see how someone might. An argument could also be made, that this is beneficial to me, as if Amazon finds a lot of traffic from DDG, they might be more inclined to buy ad space with them, giving better funding to a service I like.
- nfoz 7y agoThe HTTP Referer header is a horrible bug that should never have been part of the web IMO. When I tell laypeople that this happens they're often very surprised.