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DuckDuckGo was selected as the "preferred" search engine in Linux Mint earlier this year (and maybe earlier than that and since too, I only played with it earlier this year).
It was selected because they would share ad revenue with the Mint team.
But to do this, i.e. to add up all the 0.001 cents into a single cheque to write every month they would have to store something about the user who clicked - at the very least what operating system they run.
This is where the grey area starts - what is unique about the user and what is not ?
The OS info is a start - e.g. if it includes version info and a security vuln appears then you have your targets identified, at least the unpatched ones.
But a blanket "we don't store anything" is just woo.
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[I]So long and thanks for all the fish.[/I]
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