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DuckDuckGo Scripts Everywhere – Tracking Links?
I've been noticing DDG scripts on a large amount of the websites I visit, found through DDG.
Are these conventional tracking links similar to Google&Facebook, or are they something else?
- ohCh6zos 4y agoIs there a way you can post an example? I'm not certain I know what you mean.
- zeepzeep 4y agoWasn't DDG in another bad headline recently? I'm searching... https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/ddg-microsoft-tracking-blocking-limit/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/ddg-microsoft-tracking-blo... there seem to be many headlines lately!
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoWhat does DDG have that Qwant.con and Ecosia.org don't do better?
- night-rider 4y agoEcosia sells your data and uses the money to plant trees. Avoid it like the plague
- monetus 4y agoI asked about qwant once and Europeans chimed in with the opinion that its results suck. Ddg isn't a terrible browser or engine, less shady than brave IMO.
- nanna 4y agoSo far this is no more than a vague unsubstantiated insinuation. This is HN - could you give us something to work with?
- OrvalWintermute 4y agoPosted an image to umatrix rules below
- archildress 4y agoI can't say enough good things about Kagi Search. I dropped it in as my Google replacement a couple of months ago and don't want to go back. https://kagi.com/search https://kagi.com/search
- OJFord 4y agoI assume this is referring to 'improving.duckduckgo.com'. I don't know what it's for, but I've noticed it too. Disabled by my default uMatrix rules, (more generally by virtue of being third-party) and I never have to enable it for a working site.
- OrvalWintermute 4y agoThis is a sample of what I see some of the time [1] similar to what you said. I've also seen it more than this too at other times. Always from following DDG links onto destinations like this, but at other times what looks more like a google tracker. [1] https://postimg.cc/23Cw80cS https://postimg.cc/23Cw80cS
- yegg 4y agoThese are completely anonymous requests that help us improve the search engine. See https://help.duckduckgo.com/privacy/atb/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/privacy/atb/ (also linked to from https://improving.duckduckgo.com/ https://improving.duckduckgo.com/) and discussed on HN before at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18435882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18435882 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30741090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30741090 These anonymous requests actually fire from the search engine and are not related to or embedded in other websites at all, so I suspect the tool you are using is erroneously attributing them. People commented about that in the above threads, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30742751 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30742751
- OrvalWintermute 4y agoBesides improving.duckduckgo.com , what other URLs have anonymous requests being made to DDG too that would trigger umatrix?
- yegg 4y agoI'm not very familiar with umatrix though none others come to mind, and in any case all requests to duckduckgo.com domains are anonymous by design since (as that article notes in more detail) we have our web servers and related applications set up to not log any IP addresses or other unique identifiers with requests. If you want to DM me on Twitter though I can look into it more.
- gsk22 4y agoSo what's the implication, that DDG is deceiving its users through tracking scripts? Wouldn't this also require buy-in from individual websites to include the DDG script? Any amount of details would be useful to evaluate your claim.
- OrvalWintermute 4y agoAn image of what was observed was posted below OJFord's comment.