[tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited

[Mirko]

Maxim Kammerer schrieb am 11.01.2012 10:22:58

> However, by keeping that setting you are compromising the privacy
> of the users, since, for instance, Google tracks clicks on the
> returned results (it uses redirecting links). DuckDuckGo does
> that as well. As far as I am able to tell, ixquick doesn't do
> that — at least, I don't see redirects (but there could be other
> means of tracking employed, e.g., via Javascript).
> 

Are you referring to this (from https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html)?

> DuckDuckGo prevents search leakage by default. Instead, when you
> click on a link on our site, we route (redirect) that request in
> such a way so that it does not send your search terms to other
> sites. The other sites will still know that you visited them, but
> they will not know what search you entered beforehand.

They give https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html#s1 as a reason.

You can turn it off on the settings page. You can even turn it off
by default via the search URL parameters (all options can be turned
on/ off this way without allowing cookies), so it could be off in a
default browser search plugin.