>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

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