From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Andrew Robbins <contact@andrewrobbins.info>
Cc: 25717@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25717: 25.1.1; "erc-button-google-url" should not refer to a specific search engine
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 20:32:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7u54p1o.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inod1jkj.fsf@andrewrobbins.info> (Andrew Robbins's message of "Mon, 13 Feb 2017 23:29:32 -0500")
Andrew Robbins <contact@andrewrobbins.info> writes:
> The ERC variable "erc-button-google-url" should not refer to a
> specific search engine in its name and certainly not a
> privacy-disrespecting one at that in a GNU program[1].
>
> I would suggest renaming the variable to something more generic
> such as "erc-button-web-search-url" or "erc-button-search-url"
> and changing the default value from
> "http://www.google.com/search?q=%s" to any of the following (or
> similar) at the developers' preference:
>
> * "http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s"
This is now fixed in Emacs 27.1.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-14 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-14 4:29 bug#25717: 25.1.1; "erc-button-google-url" should not refer to a specific search engine Andrew Robbins
2017-09-02 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-14 18:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2018-04-14 18:41 ` Romanos Skiadas
2018-04-14 18:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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