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Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy

(andrewmarder.net)
263 points amarder | 4 comments | 30 Aug 25 11:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
1. Dwedit ◴[30 Aug 25 22:53 UTC] No.45078697[source]▶
How would you know if DuckDuckGo actually respected privacy? It's a black box.
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2. mixmastamyk ◴[30 Aug 25 23:32 UTC] No.45078946[source]▶
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.
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3. Dwedit ◴[31 Aug 25 04:53 UTC] No.45080481[source]▶
Allegedly they do that for "referer protection" reasons to hide the search term that was used to get to the site.
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4. wizzwizz4 ◴[31 Aug 25 14:50 UTC] No.45083587{3}[source]▶
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".