DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers

Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by ancarda on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @09:44PM (#23709091)

https://duckduckgo.com/settings#appearance

Uncheck the very last option "Site Icons"

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by uncletammy on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:25PM (#23709309)

This should be the top response. Just under it should be a DDG staffer telling us they will be turning this config option off by default starting with the the next release.

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by Kiro on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:08AM (#23710727)

No, since it's incorrect. We're talking about the browser, not the search engine results.

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by ximeng on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:30PM (#23709337)

I'm assuming that doesn't affect the browser, which is what this issue relates to.

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by a3n on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:06AM (#23711010)

Maybe you have to be logged in to DDG for this to work? Which if true feels that much worse.

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by Carpetsmoker on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:10AM (#23711373)

What advantage does this give you? DDG just gave you a list of URLs, so how can it be "tracking" the results it just presented to you?

The issue, as I understand it, is that the Android app loads the favicon service for search results you actually open in the app.

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by lvturner on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @09:32PM (#23709013)

Route icons.duckduckgo.com to null.

Sidenote: The more I use pi-hole the more I realise how essential it is!

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by jobigoud on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:56AM (#23710957)

Is there a difference between using pi-hole and edinting etc host on Windows? I've heard about pi-hole but I'm not sure what it does exactly.

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by GordonS on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:14AM (#23711043)

This is essentially the same, but pi-hole gives you a nice UI, stats etc, and of course you can point all your machine at a pi-hole instead of editing the hosts file on each.

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by jb775 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:16AM (#23710509)

Are you able to block youtube ads using pi-hole?

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by moepstar on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:27AM (#23710557)

Sadly, not anymore - used to be the case quite a while ago, but not today anymore as the ads come from the same domains the videos are streamed from.

Those simpler popover-ads which can be closed clicking an X in the upper right corner still are blocked tho...

Spilling my secret tho (and YouTube execs hate me for it!): i block YouTube in my mind and only rarely go to it if i really need to watch a video (which, for me, is rarer than i ever thought it'd be).

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by dredmorbius on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:53AM (#23710657)

https://invidio.us

Or mpv (for single videos, or local playlists), or mps-youtube, or youtube-dl.

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by mahaganapati on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:29AM (#23710563)

It's complicated and a quickly moving target. I use pi-hole plus local browser blocking like uBlock origin.

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