On 01/14/2014 at 6:22 PM, "Seth Arnold" wrote:On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:41:42AM -0700, 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 [...] > 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 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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