[tor-bugs] #4902 [Tor Browser]: Change the default search engine in TBB

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#4902: Change the default search engine in TBB
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 Reporter:  phobos       |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:           
Component:  Tor Browser  |        Version:           
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Comment(by Neo139):

 What Duck Duck Go does is adding &tag=duckduckgo to all the URLs of
 Amazon. That's it. If you search "Amazon kindle" you will get
 https://www.amazon.com/kindle-store-ebooks-newspapers-
 blogs/b?ie=UTF8&node=133141011&tag=duckduckgo-d-20
 This is doesn't affect privacy more than cross-referering in common
 browsers. Amazon knows you came there via DDG. Nothing more.

 I use Amazon Associates so I know the info duckduckgo is able to see is
 not much (number of clicks, number of buys, and products bought, You can't
 tell if 100 products were bought by 100 different people or all by 1 dude.

 I think is way of business is much 'privacy-friendly' than recording
 everything you do, mining all, and displaying ads based on that.

 There should be both scroogle, start page and DDG in the search engine
 (ctrl K) list. But as default, DDG.  Scroogle is currently laggy

 @mk
 We can ask DDG admins to have an option to access the non-javascript page
 via URL parameters. &js=0
 and maybe some 'lite' version without the "Spread DGG" sidebar, with a
 &lite=1

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