[tagawa]

Hi. Sorry you haven't had a satisfactory answer from us - I'll try to do that here.

The click redirects are to stop the subsequent website from seeing a user's search terms, but we only use it for browsers that don't support meta referrer. Even then, we obviously don't collect or share anything via the redirect server, in line with our privacy policy ( https://duckduckgo.com/privacy ). There's a bit more about the redirects here: https://duck.co/help/results/rduckduckgocom

Also, it's possible to disable them completely here: http://duckduckgo.com/settings#privacy

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