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Like most search engines DuckDuckGo uses https so your isp can’t see what you search for.

But they can know which domains you visit, which would strongly imply a number of searches using DuckDuckGo, which might be interesting to Google.

edge caching :-)

> They would be captured by the ISP.

Ever heard of https?

Yes. As you have pointed out, the ISP can only log a host name [0]. Well, if the user story is porn, then as it happens, host names are pretty darn telling. Also, looking at a list of host names in chronological order might help them to classify me as "closet this" or "closet that", as I find myself less and less inhibited by society's rules the closer I come to crescendo.

https://www.upturn.org/reports/2016/what-isps-can-see/

EDIT: spelling