Duckduckgo pretends to be not evil. It makes “oh hey, just trust me!” claims.
Just like Google.
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2019-07-27 — Some time ago I learned they’ve been funding Bad Guys: https://duckduckgo.com/donations
- For example, Demand Progress. Who also get money from the Open Society Foundations (Soros).
- For some commentary, see DuckDuckGo Is Funding Your Enemies.
Removing duckduckgo URL tracking ∞
Found at https://web.archive.org/web/20131112163049/https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/107272
As of 2014-05-21, userscripts.org is down. Try https://web.archive.org/web/20140512122532/http://userscripts.org:8080/scripts/show/107272
I have no idea what I’m doing, but my edit worked.
FIXME – This does not work! Mousing over an item shows the proper URL, but actually visiting it will still go through the modified duckduckgo URL. Fuck!
Spoiler
// ==UserScript== // @name Google Result-Privacy (edited to include duckduckgo) // @description Removes the redirects from Google and Duckduckgo search results to prevent them from tracking which links you clicked. // @namespace https://web.archive.org/web/20140512122532/http://userscripts.org:8080/scripts/show/107272 // hege.cc/userscripts [2014-05-21 - gone] // @include *://duckduckgo.com/* // @include *://www.google.tld/* // @include *://ipv6.google.tld/* // the following entries are there, because .tld does not work in chrome // @include *://www.google.*/* // @include *://www.google.co.uk/* // @include *://www.google.com.hk/* // @exclude *://www.google.*/imgres?* // @version 0.2 // ==/UserScript== (function(){ function process_links(links) { for( var i=0; i<links.length; ++i ){ links[i].removeAttribute("onmousedown"); } }; // for static search-pages process_links(document.links); // when Google instant is active document.addEventListener('DOMNodeInserted', function(e){ process_links(e.target.getElementsByTagName('a')); return true; }, false); })();
