full-disclosure - Re: Ubuntu, duckduckgo, and additional info

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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:16:30 -0800
From: Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@...onical.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Ubuntu, duckduckgo, and additional info

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:41:42AM -0700, silence_is_best@...hmail.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
[...]
> I didn't add canonical...so why is it there?  In about:config I see
[...]
> 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

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