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Can someone please explain like I'm five how this line of code sends the domain a user visited to DDG's servers?
by eightlimbed 6y ago
Can someone please explain like I'm five how this line of code sends the domain a user visited to DDG's servers?
- oplav 6y agoEvery time you visit a website on the Android version of the browser, instead of requesting the favicon from https://example.com/favicon.ico https://example.com/favicon.ico, the app is calling out to https://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip3/example.com/favicon.ico https://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip3/example.com/favicon.ico. Since DDG owns the icons.duckduckgo.com service and the domain you were interested in is in the request to icons.duckduckgo.com, you've sent the domain to DDG's servers.