[ahtaarra]

I recently made the swtich from DDG from Searx simply bevause right-clicking on a search result to copy the url resulted in a referrer link to be copied rather than the link of the result destination.

[caskstrength]

I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/ to automatically convert referrals to actual links on web pages.

[ravenstine]

I've been using ClearURLs for a while so I never even realized that DDG used referrer links. Have they always done this?

[southerntofu]

I think enabling DoNotTrack header or disabling JavaScript prevents this behavior: i cannot reproduce on Tor Browser. But you are correct this is a worrying development.

[boomboomsubban]

Isn't the referral link only on the ad results, which is clearly marked "AD"? That's what my quick test shows.

[ahtaarra]

Now I am not sure what exactly the issue is but this seems to be applicable to all results, at least on my particular setup.

On LibreWolf browser,

On mouse hover, the correct result urls show but then I right-click one, it shows something like:

https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=<destination_url_here>&notrut...

But this same behaviour cannot be observed on Google/Searx on the same browser. It also even isn't observable with DDG on a FF nightly build on the same system and a FF stable build on a separate one.

Edit: url formatting

EDIT2: this behaviour seems to be limited to my particular setup and even a clean LibreWolf profile seems not to suffer from this issue. I apologise for the misunderstanding.

[boomboomsubban]

Bizarre. I would never guess that was a local problem, even with my post I assumed you accidentally copied the ad then quickly made a decision.