This announcement is more than private search; it's all the privacy essentials to search and browse the web -- tracker blocking, upgraded encryption, and private search (with more to come) -- all in one package, available on all major desktop browsers and mobile platforms.
With regards to the search component, we actually offer two Non-JS sites: https://duckduckgo.com/html & https://duckduckgo.com/lite. Also, turning off JS and cookies still doens't prevent a search engine from tracking you, which they can do simply by your IP address.
That's quite cool, thank you. For some reason it I can't make it work with Firefox's "search keyword" (the feature of starting a query with a keyword on the smart-bar which forwards that query to the search engine of your choice)
> Also, turning off JS and cookies still doens't prevent a search engine from tracking you, which they can do simply by your IP address.
Sure. Some datapoints about you are easier to hide than others. So are you saying that DDG doesn't store that?
>When you search at DuckDuckGo, we don't know who you are and there is no way to tie your searches together.
> When you access DuckDuckGo (or any Web site), your Web browser automatically sends information about your computer, e.g. your User agent and IP address.
> Because this information could be used to link you to your searches, we do not log (store) it at all. This is a very unusual practice, but we feel it is an important step to protect your privacy.
They also provide tools to help prevent other sites from tracking you:
>Finally, if you want to prevent sites from knowing you visited them at all, you can use a proxy like Tor. DuckDuckGo actually operates a Tor exit enclave, which means you can get end to end anonymous and encrypted searching using Tor & DDG together.
>You can enter !proxy domain into DuckDuckGo as well, and we will route you through a proxy, e.g. !proxy breadpig.com. This feature is part of our !bang syntax. Unfortunately, proxies can also be slow, and free proxies (like the one we use) are funded by arguably excessive advertising.
Can I give you a suggestion. When someone is using ddg with JS off, I think that dgg shouldn't "redirect to non-JS site". Instead you guys should have the same page being useable without JS using the <noscript> tag. Google and Bing both have achieved that, so it's possible.
With regards to the search component, we actually offer two Non-JS sites: https://duckduckgo.com/html & https://duckduckgo.com/lite. Also, turning off JS and cookies still doens't prevent a search engine from tracking you, which they can do simply by your IP address.