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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by eightlimbed on Thursday July 02, 2020 @07:19AM (#23712003)
Can someone please explain like I'm five how this line of code sends the domain a user visited to DDG's servers?
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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by oplav on Thursday July 02, 2020 @10:50AM (#23713812)
Every time you visit a website on the Android version of the browser, instead of requesting the favicon from https://example.com/favicon.ico, the app is calling out to https://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip3/example.com/favicon.ico.

Since DDG owns the icons.duckduckgo.com service and the domain you were interested in is in the request to icons.duckduckgo.com, you've sent the domain to DDG's servers.

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