DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day

Re:DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day by severine on Saturday January 21, 2017 @03:28PM (#13451933)

I use DDG Lite with Dillo, a fast non-Javascript GUI browser, but lately (I'd say since the first week of January, according to this message [1] in Dillo's mailing list), I'm unable to visit the search results using Dillo's native search box.

Instead of sending me to example.com, DDG redirects to a weird constructed address [2]). If I go to duckduckgo.com/lite and search there, it works fine. Any ideas? What would be the best (eh, sorry) place to post this?

Of course, thanks for your great work, and bangs are amazing!

[1] http://lists.dillo.org/pipermail/dillo-dev/2017-January/0110...

[2] https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.co...

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Re:DuckDuckGo Hits 14M Searches in a Single Day by g_lined on Saturday January 21, 2017 @05:40PM (#13452493)

This is to stop your HTTP referrer leaking your search terms: "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." https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

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