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		mixmastamyk 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved brows... DDG reports all clicks to links.duckduckgo.com and improving.duckduckgo.com, etc. Which AdGuard seems to block, and maybe one of my browser settings/extensions as well.

Dwedit 3 months ago [–]

Allegedly they do that for "referer protection" reasons to hide the search term that was used to get to the site.

wizzwizz4 3 months ago | [–]

This is separate to referrer protection, which is only active as-needed – in most modern browsers, DuckDuckGo's referrer protection never kicks in, because they support rel="noopener noreferrer".

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