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Yes that seems to be correct, it's explained here: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/rduckduckgocom/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduc

• marginalia_nu 4y ago
  Seems like pretty sketchy privacy algebra, the number of browsers that don't respect Referrer-Policy: no-referrer is very small, and at the same time this allows them to gather statistics on which links are clicked, the latter is a far bigger privacy concern.
  • yegg 4y ago
    This is not on in modern browsers. From the referenced help page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31170796 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31170796): ** On modern browsers we accomplish this by adding a small piece of code to our page called Meta referrer. Some browsers (especially older ones) do not support this standard, however. For those browsers, and also in situations where meta referrer doesn't work, we send the request back to our servers to remove search terms. This redirect goes through r.duckduckgo.com. You can disable this privacy feature. To do that, go to the settings page, select Privacy, and change the option Redirect to Off. **
    • marginalia_nu 4y ago
      Ah, my bad, I misunderstood then. That is perfectly reasonable.