I don't use DuckDuckGo, but this argument about location data really doesn't get it all. > As seen in the example above, it polluted my search results with geo

I don't use DuckDuckGo, but this argument about location data really doesn't get it all. > As seen in the example above, it polluted my search results with geographically relevant search results that had nothing to do with my search terms. OK? I hope he doesn't get cancer from this kind of "pollution". Any attempt at showing useful stuff is sometimes going to fail. If you use pagerank to rank websites you're occassionally going to "pollute" the search results with SEO shit. > Although they insist it's anonymous, the best strategy would probably be to not collect the data at all, but I digress. But this is the truly clueless argument here. If you send a request to a website, they necessarily know your IP address. For them to look up this IP address in a location database, adds no additional privacy risk.