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DuckDuck Debian?DuckDuck Debian?Posted Apr 5, 2012 7:58 UTC (Thu) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988)Parent article: DuckDuck Debian?
Is there a "deal" necessary at all? Couldn't DuckDuckGo inspect the User-Agent string, try to guess whether it's coming from Debian-packaged browser and use it to gauge the size of a "voluntary" contribution? No changes required on Debian's side. But it's pointless if Debian Developers or friends are not allowed to advertise it, though.
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DuckDuck Debian? Posted Apr 5, 2012 8:32 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]
IIRC from the thread they explicitly don't track User-Agents.
DuckDuck Debian? Posted Apr 5, 2012 9:11 UTC (Thu) by przemoc (subscriber, #67594) [Link]
It's also on their page.
Information Not Collected
> When you access DuckDuckGo (or any Web site), your Web browser automatically sends information about your computer, e.g. your User agent and IP address.
OTOH they could introduce some simple statistics, i.e. do not store UA, but increment the value of browser name+version key. It wouldn't lower privacy level of DuckDuckGo users.
But... it works only for Iceweasel, as it's debian-specific (well, debian-blends-and-derivates-specific too), so it's not a good enough solution.
BTW If we have 'Windows NT 6.1' and such in UAs, couldn't we just put there the distribution name+version next to 'Linux'? We already have such information available as LSB requires it AFAIK. It's a bigger change (and wouldn't be done for debian only), but maybe worth considering?
Then they could store sufficiently detailed statistics for OSes too.
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