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Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth Wins Austria's Big Brother Award

Posted by Unknown on from the it-burns dept.

sfcrazy writes "Austria's Big Brother Awards awarded the coveted Big Brother Award to Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth for Ubuntu Dash's privacy reducing online extensions to local searches." From the article: "What’s bad here and raises question here is that despite repeated requests Canonical refused to make the tracking option opt-in. The feature is installed and enabled by default so the moment one install Ubuntu it starts sending info to Canonical servers until the user deliberately disables it."

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  1. Freedom isn't free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How do you expect Canonical to continue helping Linux actually become usable on the desktop? You neckbeards weren't doing such a good job before Ubuntu came around.