[Bradford] Ubuntu Spyware: What to do?

[Dick Thomas]

I personally think what they should of done is made the amazon/shopping
lens disabled by default and allow you to enable
it on the installer after explaining it
and then made the shopping lens it's own entity not built into the main
search

long as gnome don't do it I'm happy, I abandoned Ubuntu a while back for
Debian, why use a Debian derivative when I can use debian

Dick

On 31 December 2012 16:54, Brian <bradlug at techchico.org.uk> wrote:

> The so-called spyware is in the Unity dash. implicit in this is that it is
> only in Ubuntu. I use Ubuntu but with GNOME 3 so I don't get anything like
> that. Personally I think that Canonical just handled the Amazon thing
> badly. They have been told about it and you can disable it in the settings.
> Currently it disables all Unity searches when you do this. I think that
> they should have just put an Amazon icon on the menu and left it at that. I
> don't blame Canonical for trying to make some money. Mark must have spent a
> shed-load of dosh on Ubuntu so far. Now there is a request for a donation
> when downloading Ubuntu. I don't blame them for trying to make some money
> but they handled it badly. I disagree with some of the stuff that RMS comes
> out with. If you saw the interview on the Linux Action Show you'd probably
> see what I mean. Some of his ideas are impractical in the real world where
> people have to put food on the table.
> Brian
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Tomas Holderness <tomasholderness at gmail.com>
> *To:* David Carpenter <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk>
> *Cc:* bradford <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> *Sent:* Monday, 31 December 2012, 16:42
> *Subject:* Re: [Bradford] Ubuntu Spyware: What to do?
>
> Stallman makes a good case for not using Ubuntu. Further to his points,
> I'm also concerned about the Ubuntu-Amazon partnership given Amazon's tax
> avoidance here in the UK.
> Am I right in thinking the Amazon search is only found in Ubuntu versions
> using the latest unity interface, and not derivatives such as xubuntu?
> Tom.
> On 31 Dec 2012 16:29, "David Carpenter" <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> You may be interested in...
>
> One of the major advantages of free software is that the community
> protects users from malicious software. Now Ubuntu GNU/Linux has
> become a counterexample. What should we do?
>
> http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do
>
> Cheers
> David
>
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