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Re:DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous by spekode on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @03:46PM (#1362099)
They aren't passing on the query in the referrer string. Your browser is. This story is a non-story. Referrer is just doing what Referrer does.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous by jacquesm on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @03:49PM (#1362110)
It's a fine story, and it is fixable. And it probably should be fixed, if only because fixing it is less work than talking about it. And due to a terrible oversight the header is actually mis-spelled and it came out as 'Referer:'.

Fixing this will make duckduckgo.com even better, which is awesome.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous by random42 on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @07:45PM (#1362777)
> And due to a terrible oversight the header is actually mis-spelled and it came out as 'Referer

Well, Cant blame DDG for it though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer#Origin_of_the_ter...

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Re:DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous by jacquesm on Thursday May 20, 2010 @02:34PM (#1364832)
No, definitely not, I just wanted to point that out.

I knew about this for years, having stared at a bug for a whole day before I realized it was the header that was misspelled. It never even crossed my mind until I was away from the keyboard for a few hours.

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