On the settings page, your settings are saved via non-personal browser cookies. The DuckDuckGo setting cookies are a reflection of your current settings as a URL (see below) but without the 'k' parameter. For example, the region setting is notated with, 'kl' and a Canadian region setting would look like kl=ca-en in the URL. The cookie for that setting, though, would be named, 'l' and it's content would be ca-en.
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To avoid cookies altogether, you could use our URL parameters. To make the use of the parameters easier on the settings page there is a link entitled, Bookmarklets and settings data. Clicking this link will expand the Settings box and show you your settings as a web address (URL). You can set that web address as your homepage or as a bookmark/favorite, and then those settings should be respected thereafter (as long as you start from that page).
If you save that URL you can also use it to load/restore your settings from the bottom of the settings page as well. For example, you can email yourself that URL and then easily restore settings on different computers.
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