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Ubuntu's New Firefox Is Watching You
sukotto writes "Ubuntu recently released an unannounced and experimental 'multisearch' extension to Firefox alpha 3, apparently in an effort to improve the default behavior of new tabs and of search. In a response to one of the initial bug reports the maintainers mentioned that the extension's other purposes were 'collecting the usage data' and 'generating revenue.' Since this extension installs by itself and offers no warning about potential privacy violations, quite a few people (myself included) feel pretty unhappy. The only way to opt out is to disable the extension manually via Tools > Add-ons." Most posters to this Ubuntu forum thread are not happy about multisearch.
Save their brand from a handful of whiners who have nothing better to do in their lives then bitch about Canonical (who is behind the most popular Linux distro) making some money? Give me a break.
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
Yes there is, didn't you know? It is called "WinXP" and it is why MSFT has been busting their balls to make Win7 rock. Because they know that if it DON'T rock, then there are enough OEM copies of XP available at places like Newegg (not to mention all the corp versions floating around P2P) that their profits can take a nosedive.
I should thank the Linux guys though. if it wasn't for Linux making the Ballmer monkey shit puppies over Netbooks and laptops we wouldn't still have WinXP being sold and I probably wouldn't have gotten Win7 HP for $50. So thanks Linux guys! Sorry I can't use your OS but like a good 97% of the world I think CLI sucks ass. Thanks anyway though. Keep scaring Ballmer monkey for us!
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.