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I don’t understand how this is possible if this is a private, account free service.

Overall, I don’t get what ddg gets out of this very expensive to offer service. Which means I don’t teust its a way to privately use LLMs.

Browsers allow websites to have persistent storage apart from cookies.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_API