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DuckDuckGo: Illusion of Privacy

Posted by timothy on from the if-it-barks-like-a-duck dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With all of the news stories about users moving to DuckDuckGo because of NSA spying, this article discusses why the privacy provided by DuckDuckGo is more the privacy from third-party tracking (advertisers) but may do little, if anything, to prevent the NSA from tracking your searches."

2 of 264 comments (clear)

  1. Credibility? by karolgajewski · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I may be breaking the fundamental rules of Slashdot, but ...
    - the "article" is a single post on a recently created blog
    - they misspell "lose"
    - a quick google of Brett Wooldrige doesn't bring up anything exciting (a Forbes blog account with no content?)

    This is the very definition of "nothing to see here, move along".

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    - .k. -
  2. To hide the referrer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To strip off the referrer. Otherwise the end site would see the URL of the DuckDuckGo search revealing the details of the search, page, etc.