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

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Message-Id: <1389727516.7674.70724449.59119AFE@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:25:16 -0800
From: Gabriel Weinberg <yegg@...kduckgo.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Ubuntu, duckduckgo, and additional info

> 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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