DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous

Re:DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous by btucker on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @03:42PM (#1362090)

I wouldn't say there is a trivial fix. One option would be to encrypt the search term client-side with blowfish (or some other 2-way hash scheme) and use that as the url string.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous by gizmomagico on Thursday May 20, 2010 @01:35AM (#1363322)

Erm.. You probably mean something like a "symmetric block cipher", such as Blowfish. The point of (cryptographic) hashes is that they're one way only.

But as for a fix, at least Opera offers the option of never sending referrer information. That would be enough in this case.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous by code_duck on Thursday May 20, 2010 @02:16AM (#1363367)

Firefox offers that option as well - you just have to go to about:config and set network.http.sendRefererHeader to 0.

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