DA Pro Privacy/Tracking question

DEVONagent Tips
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Google in Safari tracks your history of queries, and I hear it’s going to get a lot more intrusive on March 1, 2012.

What does DA Pro do when it uses the Google plug-in to search? Does it hook us up to Google tracking? Does it send cookies? Where does Google perceive the query coming from?

I know that DA Pro gives you a far, far greater range of results than Google because DA doesn’t have that nasty search algorithm that thinks it knows me.

[If you’ve addressed this somewhere on this site, I can’t find it.]

Thanks!

2

Right now DEVONagent supports cookies and uses Mac OS X’s default handling. However, we might revise/disable this in the future or use a proxy for searching (to anonymize requests) depending on feedback.

3

I strongly prefer an anonymization option, especially in the face of Google’s intrusive policy changes, and that Google reportedly ignored Safari’s (and WebKit’s?) security settings without informing the user.

4

Sooooooo… in light of what’s been going on in the world lately, how private is DEVONagent nowadays, Pro or Express?

5

The privacy is still the same.

6

DuckDuckGo it is then.

7

Have you compared it with Ixquick Search Engine?

8

I had never heard of that. According to Wikipedia, it uses Google, just anonymously. Is there a way to plug this between Devonagent and Google?
I.e. make a module for DA that searches Google anonymously, using Ixquick?