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On the practical end...

On the practical end...

Posted Dec 8, 2012 8:50 UTC (Sat) by frazier (guest, #3060)
Parent article: Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

I ran 'sudo dpkg --purge unity-lens-shopping' on my netbook running Ubuntu 12.10 and the annoying Amazon spam disappeared.


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On the practical end...

Posted Dec 8, 2012 20:55 UTC (Sat) by did447 (guest, #49454) [Link]

You see that's the 'Window experience', have to remove a bunch of crapwares after install.

What's next? Norton antivirus?

They already have: regularly reboot the computer to fix it after whatever undocumented badly written code stop doing ... something.

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