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Re: Ubuntu, duckduckgo, and additional info
From: silence_is_best () hushmail com
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:32:23 -0700
On 01/14/2014 at 6:22 PM, "Seth Arnold" wrote:On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:41:42AM -0700, silence_is_best () hushmail com wrote:
Any particular reason when setting duckduckgo as the default search and searching from the url bar we get an additional nugget of info sent? Case in point: GET /?q=add+duckduckgo&t=canonical HTTP/1.1
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I didn't add canonical...so why is it there? In about:config I see
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Why is this being sent? Duckduckgo didn't respond, so I thought I'd ask here. Ironic...
This behaviour is documented on the duckduckgo website: https://duck.co/help/privacy/t https://duck.co/help/desktop/linux-distributions Thanks Thank you for the responses folks. I'm going to take a stab and say the distribution.id is where that's held. It upsets my sense of neatness when I'm spoofing my UA, only to have tidbits added ;) Thanks again.
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