Ask HN: Weird DuckDuckGo Behaviour with Firefox

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When you use DuckDuckGo with the built in search in Firefox I noticed it adds this query parameter "t=ffab", which changes the returned search results. Anyone know what's with this?

Example:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=imdb+game+of+thrones&ia=web

The example searches for "IMDB Game of Thrones" with the added "t=ffab" query parameter. This does not return IMDB in the search results.

If you remove "t=ffab" from the query parameters, IMDB appears at the top of the search results.

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