Re: Ubuntu, duckduckgo, and additional info

[silence_is_best () hushmail com]

On 01/15/2014 at 5:08 AM, "Gabriel Weinberg"  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?

We use the t=partner parameter to anonymously count the number of
searches for revenue sharing. We have 90+ partners doing this, mainly
open source browsers and distributions. Here's the relevant link on
launchpad for Canonical: 

https://code.launchpad.net/~caine/chromium-browser/duckduckgo/+merge/182416

-- 
Gabriel, http://ye.gg/

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I see thank you.  My distribution.id nuke did nothing....any way to
disable this?  It's all about choice after all right ;)

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