1666573 - Add an option to disable disclosing Distribution.ini info

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Distributions, enhancement)

Description

[u644666]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0

Steps to reproduce:

When there is the distribution ini file when you serach on ddg it adds ?=canonical or other things. This should be optional, same as t=ffab

Comment 1

[Timea Cernea [:tbabos][inactive]]

Thank you for the enhancement request, moving this over to its component for review.

Comment 2

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

That identifier is so that Canonical/Ubuntu can monetize DuckDuckGo searches.

If you don't want to have it, you'll have to use a different version of Firefox or install a different DuckDuckGo engine.

Comment 3

[u644666]

(In reply to Mike Kaply [:mkaply] from comment #2)

That identifier is so that Canonical/Ubuntu can monetize DuckDuckGo searches.

If you don't want to have it, you'll have to use a different version of Firefox or install a different DuckDuckGo engine.

It still should be optional. Enabled by default, but optional.

Comment 4

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

It still should be optional. Enabled by default, but optional.

You are free to install a different DuckDuckGo without monetization, but as long as the browser is provided by Canonical (or Mozilla for that matter), it's going to have monetization in it for the default engines to pay for the development of those products.