Re:DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous
by Tichy on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @05:14PM
(#1362376)
Moving such stuff to "settings" is hardly a good solution for wanting to stay anonymous. After all, it probably means you'll have to be logged in.
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There are no accounts and these settings can be set without cookies as well.
Re:DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous
by onedognight on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @08:50PM
(#1362911)
Furthermore, the setting cookies are simple transparent cookies (f=-1 to turn off favicons), they are not tracking cookies. They are only used when you set the preference and then only contain your preference itself.
How do you do it without cookies? Changing the settings for each search?
You hardwire a specific URL query string into your browser search bar. Here are the params: http://duckduckgo.com/params.html