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Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?Posted Dec 7, 2012 23:50 UTC (Fri) by wagerrard (subscriber, #87558)In reply to: Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? by oever Parent article: Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?
I find the Amazon search returns in Amazon to be really annoying, but not at all a violation of some kind of ethical code.
It's the internet. Your packets aren't private.
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Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? Posted Dec 8, 2012 1:42 UTC (Sat) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
But in this case users aren't aware it's the internet. They think they are doing a local filesystem search.
True, the first time they see an Amazon result they may do a wtf, learn about this misfeature, and perhaps turn it off.
OT - I just stripped off all the bloat from my two ubuntu computers - gnome, unity, kde, xfce. Only gtk and some very basic gnome libraries remain, with software like libreoffice, evince, inkscape, gimp, and of course latex/emacs/compilers etc remain. I'm using the i3 window manager. It feels so much faster and I'm so much happier.
Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? Posted Dec 10, 2012 15:00 UTC (Mon) by KSteffensen (subscriber, #68295) [Link]
>OT - I just stripped off all the bloat from my two ubuntu computers - gnome, unity, kde, xfce. Only gtk and some very basic gnome libraries remain, with software like libreoffice, evince, inkscape, gimp, and of course latex/emacs/compilers etc remain. I'm using the i3 window manager. It feels so much faster and I'm so much happier.
Why install Ubuntu in the first place? Allow me to recommend Debian and Gentoo.
Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? Posted Dec 10, 2012 15:29 UTC (Mon) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
Because I don't see the need to wipe and reinstall? I already use gentoo on another computer. Perhaps it wasn't obvious from what I wrote, but I'm not totally ignorant of the various flavours of linux.
Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? Posted Dec 8, 2012 12:48 UTC (Sat) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]
Given that my biggest annoyance with search is the pollution of my results by sales sites, I think returning Amazon results - UNASKED FOR - in *any* search of mine would be infuriating in the extreme.
Okay, I don't like deb systems anyway, but I wouldn't bother turning off that misfeature - I would just trash / and replace the entire distro with something else.
The ONLY time I want sales results is usually when I go directly to a shop site and use their local search engine. Going via Google all too often finds me in maze of nasty little aggregation sites, all alike. Google search is polluted enough already without all these shop / sales-aggregation sites moaning that they don't get enough prominence in the results!
Cheers,
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