The thing I love about ddg is they don't seem to do that horrible redirect on some results that Google does.

I'll never understand why they do that; if you want to track links, send an async post when I click, don't add an occasional multi-second delay.

It's because browsers are unreliable about delivering async posts when the page navigates elsewhere. Some people proposed extending the web APIs to provide a reliable mechanism but it was shot down by complaints of "tracking". So now we're left with both tracking and horrible redirects.

The EFF'S HTTPS Everywhere plugin (available for Chrome and Firefox) works similarly and for a much greater number of sites:

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

We actually implement the same ruleset from HTTPS everywhere :)

Ok, sold.