On: DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous

[btucker]

I wouldn't say there is a trivial fix. One option would be to encrypt the search term client-side with blowfish (or some other 2-way hash scheme) and use that as the url string.

[gizmomagico → btucker]

Erm.. You probably mean something like a "symmetric block cipher", such as Blowfish. The point of (cryptographic) hashes is that they're one way only.

But as for a fix, at least Opera offers the option of never sending referrer information. That would be enough in this case.

[code_duck → gizmomagico]

Firefox offers that option as well - you just have to go to about:config and set network.http.sendRefererHeader to 0.