On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:25:48AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:06:46 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 01:55:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > DDG will earmark traffic originating for Debian, for browsers who want > > > > to do so, by using the search URL > > > > https://duckduckgo.com/?q={{search}}&t=debian > > > > > > The privacy implications of this need to be considered. At least for > > > Chromium there is no indication in the user agent that the user is > > > using Debian. > > > > Thanks for pointing this out. Let's consider them then. > > Should this not be a debconf question, along the lines of popcon, but as > a machine wide: > > Do you mind trading a little privacy to allow us to declare your use > of Debian to search engines, and thus possibly benefit from revenue > sharing arising from your searches?
I think this is a bad idea. If you don't do such a thing, and you leak privacy, no harm done. If, however, you do implement such a thing, then *every* piece of software that *might* expose that the user is running Debian *must* be changed so it knows about this option and removes all mention of Debian in its external communications. And what to do about the mention of "iceweasel" in the iceweasel User-Agent string? Is that Debian, too? This quickly degrades to a slippery slope of things I would not want to see us go down. -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
