>So, now the amazon guys know that I have searched that page using DDG *and*
I am a Trisquel user. Great.
File a bug. Seems to be a "feature" of the search plugins. [1]
>If instead you go to DDG and make the same search the query will be
In this case they also get the HTTP referer header [2], as always when you
click a hyperlink. That is if you haven't blocked it. A way around this is to
not click a link but right click, copy link and then paste it to a new tab.
(blacklist) There are also addons to muck with the referer.
In this case it contains the same info but I believe most people don't know
about the referer and most people should.
[1] http://www.umoor.eu/blog/images/BugVsFonctionnalite_F81A/bugfeature.jpg
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Http_referer