Don't think it's air tight. But still better than most browsers.
DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
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Re: DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
#12Very weak argument for why they do it. Using a service to retrieve a favicon? Surely there's a way to implement the same logic locally.
BitWarden does this, too.
Re: DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
#13Looks like this was an issue posted in 2019. From the looks of it, the code remains unchanged.
https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/blob/b2131d7d2f47fb09d...
Re: DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
#14Does this only occur in DuckDuckGo’s Android browser?
And the iOS browser it seems: https://github.com/duckduckgo/iOS/blob/1ae03d7221180bd6791cf...
Re: DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
#15EDIT: I didn't notice that this topic was about the DDG browser (which I didn't know existed) and responded assuming this was about the site/extension. For a browser, yes, a client-side solution is possible and probably preferable. Please check and upvote other comment trees. This makes sense to me and is not alarming. Getting favicons actually is difficult to do robustly; many applications and websites use Google's…
> Getting favicons actually is difficult to do robustly
So if you're a privacy browser. Don't. Favicons are not essential. Or, at the very least make them "opt in" and explain it.
Re: DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
#16EDIT: I didn't notice that this topic was about the DDG browser (which I didn't know existed) and responded assuming this was about the site/extension. For a browser, yes, a client-side solution is possible and probably preferable. Please check and upvote other comment trees. This makes sense to me and is not alarming. Getting favicons actually is difficult to do robustly; many applications and websites use Google's…
I don't need the favicon for a domain I never visited just because it adds some visual cool to your UI. That is not a thing. Cache it whenever I end up visiting the page and be done with it.
Re: DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
#17EDIT: I didn't notice that this topic was about the DDG browser (which I didn't know existed) and responded assuming this was about the site/extension. For a browser, yes, a client-side solution is possible and probably preferable. Please check and upvote other comment trees. This makes sense to me and is not alarming. Getting favicons actually is difficult to do robustly; many applications and websites use Google's…
> Getting favicons actually is difficult to do robustly So if you're a privacy browser. Don't. Favicons are not essential. Or, at the very least make them "opt in" and explain it.
Geez, overreacting.
Re: DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
#18Nevermind privacy. How are favicons so complicated that they need a special service that understands edge cases. Just do it one standard way and if a minority of websites don't work, then exclude them. We've been through this mess before with all kinds of web standards devolving into mess.
The standard way involves a meta tag, right?
Re: DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
#19This is a bad look for a company that is trying to build its brand on privacy and trust. Even though I don't use the DDG browser I hope they own up to this, rectify it quickly, and learn from it.
well... i'd much rather fix their deep search so it's as good as google's and not worry about this like this:)
Re: DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
#20I don't really trust DuckDuckGo, but I use their search service because I trust Google less... I still trust Firefox more for a browser although it won't take much at this point to make me switch.
a paranoid android-:)