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Ubuntu 13.04 Will Allow Instant Purchasing, Right From the Dash
sfcrazy writes "Ubuntu is becoming a shopping center. Instead of addressing the queries raised by Stallman and the EFF, Canonical is now pushing for making Ubuntu a shopping cart. With Ubuntu 13.04 Canonical is going one step forward, and soon you will be able to purchase software and music right from the Dash without opening the software center or web browser.This is intended to make the whole experience even more interactive and useful for the end user."
"When the user searches her own local files for a string using the Ubuntu desktop, Ubuntu sends that string to one of Canonical's servers. (Canonical is the company that develops Ubuntu.)" from -> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/12/07/1527225/rms-speaks-out-against-ubuntu
* Says all I needed to see... & though Mr. Stallman MAY be a wee bit "odd" in some things he does or has done or said? He's not "off" here... no way.
APK
P.S.=> Thus, I suppose the next time I try Linux, it will be MINT vs. KUbuntu (my former favorite)...
... apk
Ubuntu has been selling support for years, and it's cheaper than Red Hat:
http://www.canonical.com/enterprise-services/ubuntu-advantage/overview
Dash -> Privacy
Record Activity: OFF
Include Online Search Results: OFF
Current Ubuntu user here as well.
I'm all for this too... but in a ***separate*** shopping lens.
Even Stallman said so:
"[To protect users' privacy] is easy: all it takes is to have separate buttons for network searches and local searches, as earlier versions of Ubuntu did."
Goddamn, having shopping result when I am searching for local files is not only a privacy issue... it is damnright annoying.
If I clone myself, can I call it a thread?
If a girl winks to us, can I call it a race condition?
Actually, my discontent with recent Ubuntu releases has driven me not to Debian, but to Mint.
Eh. I have a serious moral problems with mint, starting with their stance that search engines should "share the revenue Linux Mint users generate for them" with Mint, and stunts like editing code to make them amazon affiliates in banshee's music store instead of the original developers or the ubuntu packagers, ie, the people who actually did all the hard work.
Granted, this shopping lens bullshit from Ubuntu is making me having severe moral problems with them as well, but that's definitely a reason to switch back to Debian, not Mint.
Current Ubuntu user also.
I completely agree with Stallman on this issue: Canonical needs to seperate this out for users who don't want this stuff showing up in their dash searches.
But in the mean time, there's always this:
'sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping'
Solves the problem for me rather easily.