>> Every (major/modern) browser I know of does it to earn income, maybe not
IceCat, not sure about that one.
> Ungoogled Chromium does not. Not sure whether that qualifies as "major",
but I would say the same about Icecat.
That's good to know.
I find the argument: "all the big ones do it, so everyone can do it"
particularly not convincing. The abrowser-help page on this website has an
entry about "Resisting Fingerprinting" but does not mention Abrowser's
default search command automatically adding "trisquel' as a parameter.