This has been there from the start. It's to hide the referer from the page you land on. It used to be standard practice for anyone writing a web application to

This has been there from the start. It's to hide the referer from the page you land on. It used to be standard practice for anyone writing a web application to avoid inadvertently leaking user information in the referer header. There are better ways to do this if the user is on a modern browser. https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/rduckduckgocom/ https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/rduckdu...