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Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed

Posted by timothy on from the not-what-I-want-by-default dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Scheduled to be released next month, Ubuntu 12.10 now includes both Amazon ads in the user's dash and by default an Amazon store in the user's launcher. The reason for these 'features'? Affiliate revenue. Despite previous controversies with Banshee and Yahoo, Canonical is 'confident it will be an interesting and useful feature for our 12.10 users.' But are the 'users' becoming products?" Update: 09/22 19:35 GMT by T : Reader bkerensa scoffs, calling the Amazon integration unobtrusive, and says objections to its inclusion in the OS should be ignored, "because in reality ads will not be found in 12.10 unless you are seeing them on a third party website you go to in a web browser." He's got screenshots.

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  1. I see by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mass migration in 3...2...1...

    1. Re:I see by rubycodez · · Score: 5, Insightful

      you mean the second one, of those people remaining after the Unity / GNOME3 rendered any concept of multi-task workflow useless

      stick a fork in Canonical, they are done

    2. Re:I see by TwilightXaos · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This is Linux. Distro is a proper subset of Settings.

  2. Re:But are the 'users' becoming products? by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Here's a hint: if you're not paying for it, you are the product.

    I do not pay for this:

    https://www.scientificlinux.org/

    Somehow, I do not think that Fermilab or CERN view me as the product.

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    Palm trees and 8