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		BCM43 on Sept 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DuckDuckGo Traffic It doesn't proxy the request to google, it issues a redirect to google and your browser does the request, with all its cookies.

dorfsmay on Sept 29, 2018 [–]

So what's the point of using ddg instead of google if you do this?

takeda on Sept 29, 2018 | [–]

It's just a quick way for the user to also try Google. I usually do search in DDG (default search) if I don't get good results I append !g to get results. Most often though Google doesn't give me much better results.

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