i vary my IP randomly to try to be tracked less on the internet by ad companies.
when using duckduckgo, i notice my results of certain searches seem slightly correlated to the IP I use if there’s anything that could be impacted by location.
this is also not just country specific, where duckduckgo is narrowing this down based on country
i am not sure if duckduckgo is passing on the IP or if somehow bing has partnered with data centers or ISPs to try to guess the IPs going into duckduckgo.
I also may be sensing this correlation and it’s just random and not there. i could be wrong.
Does anyone else ever notice this or wonder about this?
If you keep clicking more results and just about any search you do, you’ll probably notice it’ll start showing you a bunch of results based on your ip. I have my location turned off on my phone and in my browser and it still does it. Haven’t figured out a way to stop it either
Use 4get, you can search DDG without revealing your IP
but duckduckgo isn’t supposed to track its users and it’s supposed to get results from bing without bing knowing your IP address, right?