On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:25 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>So, now the amazon guys know that I have searched that page using DDG *and* >> I am a Trisquel user. Great. > > File a bug. Seems to be a "feature" of the search plugins. [1]
Sort of, I don't think there's much that trisquel can do this is something that happens server-side. The DDG searches from trisquel always have the 'trisquel' string in their queries, e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=free+software+foundation&t=trisquel This is, I think, due to an agreement between DDG and trisquel. If you use Ubuntu instead, you'll see a string saying "canonical". > In this case they also get the HTTP referer header [2], as always when you > click a hyperlink. That is if you haven't blocked it. A way around this is > to not click a link but right click, copy link and then paste it to a new > tab. (blacklist) There are also addons to muck with the referer. I know about the referer. But the query is not generated when you click the link, it's already in it. In any case, I just wanted to let the other users know about this. Best, -- Stefano
