There is a reddit post regarding this. Please see http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1jek5d/why_am_i_seeing_canonical_when_i_search_using/
Daniel > On Jan 14, 2014, at 6:41 AM, silence_is_b...@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 > Host duckduckgo.com > User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 > Firefox/26.0 > Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 > Accept-Language en-US,en;q=0.5 > Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate > DNT 1 > Connection keep-alive > > I didn't add canonical...so why is it there? In about:config I see > > distribution.id canonical > > Why is this being sent? Duckduckgo didn't respond, so I thought I'd ask > here. Ironic... > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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