When using the noai domain + html instead of just providing the URL to the website a redirect website through Duckduckgo is provided.
Here’s an example:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/html?q=cloudflare+speedtest has:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fspeed.cloudflare.com%2F&rut=7308a8bf028168b377d5ba5ac7f2669efd5d25f87445327fa6ba22aa5db85355 as the URL for the first result instead of speed.cloudflare.com.
That URL will change the window location with javascript to the correct website or HTML redirect if javascript is disabled. In the paramaters uddg is the URL to redirect to and rut is an identifier based on the URL it redirects to.
I’m not sure why it only happens with this specific combination of search, can anyone else check if this happens?
Also, I’m not sure if this is the correct community to post to but [email protected] is dead and this is sort of privacy related because this can be used for tracking. Sorry if this is the wrong community for this kind of post.
Can’t help with this exactly but just wanted to point out that DDG has chosen to censor search results. The results they were censoring was, granted, for good reasons. But the issue is that if the founders are making personal choices on what should and shouldn’t be shown in search results, you can’t know what else they may be censoring or what they’ll decide to censor in the future.
Source? I found they removed the Yandex index, censored Russian propaganda…
That’s it? That’s your take on DDG or there is something substantial?
Is there even a search engine that is truly uncensored?