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Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?Posted Dec 7, 2012 22:56 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? by coriordan Parent article: Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?
The auto-completion feature in Google or Bing search sends characters to Google or Bing as soon as you type them, but the user is fully aware that he/she is sending a query to a search engine. But Ubuntu sends the query to Amazon even when you thought that you were only searching your local computer, or that you were searching Ubuntu's package list for a program. At the very least, this should be opt-in, not opt-out.
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Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? Posted Dec 10, 2012 11:49 UTC (Mon) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] Exactly. The two are not to be confused.
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