On: DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous

[grepular]

The problem is not that the referer leaks to the sites you click through to. The referer leaks to sites as soon as the results page is displayed because there are externally hosted images embedded in the results page.

[jacquesm → grepular]

But a post would take care of that right ?

After all, then the referring url would just be the search page without any parameters.

So if you switch off the post then leakage would occur, with the 'post' enabled you're fine.

edit: I see what you mean now, if they switch to 'get' mode it leaks the info even to sites they don't visit. One more good reason to use that post!