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Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - Zead - 03-14-2015
http://askubuntu.com/questions/577286/how-to-remove-t-canonical-from-firefox-browser-searches-made-on-duckduckgo
Re: Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - shengchieh - 03-15-2015
Wow! Remove canonical from next release of LL. On LL 2.0, I see t=canonical, on LM 16 XFCE, I do not. Can someone test for later release of LL? Search for anything and look at the URL.
Sheng-Chieh
Re: Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - altman - 03-15-2015
Might removing xul in ff do the trick ! I always remove it on all my fresh installs .
Re: Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - Valtam - 03-15-2015
What's the name of the package? I'll take a look.
Re: Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - altman - 03-15-2015
Ok , I ll check it out .
Re: Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - altman - 03-15-2015
Ok , either xul , or ubufox &/or xul-ext-ubufox .
I guess LL comes with the later if I remember well .
Re: Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - LL-user - 03-15-2015
Yep, xul-ext-ubufox it is (LL2.2).
BUT removing it, doesn't obviously help. At least not in my case having used FF with package installed before. Don't know whether it makes a difference to remove the package before launching FF for the first time? Will test and report back...
Re: Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - altman - 03-15-2015
It s the results I get from DDG research :
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cat+cooking+salmon
Note , no t-canonicals here .
Re: Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - LL-user - 03-15-2015
Hm, I've just tested it with a new account and xul-ext-ubufox removed.
I'm still ending up with the "&t=canonical" part. Using the /etc/skel/.mozilla copied to the new account as well as after deleting .mozilla in the new account.
Re: Is Canonical tracking me through the DuckDuckGo search engine? - altman - 03-15-2015
Gee , that sux mate !
Maybe in FF s Preferences ! I have Do Not Track enabled in my FF Prefs , also I have Private Browsing enabled , & cookies off , might help on your side .
Wonder if it has to do with Privacy Settings ( Cookies as an example ) in FF s Preferences .