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Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spywareUbuntu, non-advertisements, and spywarePosted Dec 13, 2012 17:32 UTC (Thu) by wagerrard (subscriber, #87558)In reply to: Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware by pboddie Parent article: Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware
I know plenty of people who are quite aware of what happens to the data they generate online and are not at all exercised by this issue. While they aren't about to start posting PIN's and bank account numbers, they don't care if Microsoft/Google/Amazon/Ubuntu/whoever knows that someone at their IP address bought something online. The potential downside loses to the actual upside. They use plastic to buy everything, loyalty cards at groceries, get photographed driving through intersections, know Google is trolling our email for ad placements, etc., etc. They aren't interested in the remedies RMS suggests, which amount to withdrawing from all of this activity. People are not interested in becoming the Virtual Amish.
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Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware Posted Dec 13, 2012 18:10 UTC (Thu) by seyman (subscriber, #1172) [Link]
> They aren't interested in the remedies RMS suggests
I don't think we've read the same blog post. RMS clearly states that the appropriate remedy is to make the dash search local by default.
Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware Posted Dec 14, 2012 9:31 UTC (Fri) by SiB (subscriber, #4048) [Link]
> ... they don't care ...
That is the core of the problem.
Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware Posted Dec 14, 2012 9:42 UTC (Fri) by hugoroy (subscriber, #60577) [Link]
Maybe ignorance/transparency is the real problem. Canonical should be more informative about the "feature" when users install/update Ubuntu. There are ways to make Privacy policies understandable. Their current legal notice, see http://lwn.net/Articles/528810/ with the link to the lenghty Canonical privacy policy, is NOT helping users understand what the issue is.
Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware Posted Dec 17, 2012 0:04 UTC (Mon) by dirtyepic (subscriber, #30178) [Link]
Which problem would that be? Google knows I'm reading a book? My (or your) government knows I bought a movie last week? I honestly don't care. Letting businesses know what things I like means they're more likely to continue making them. If the government wants to know what you're up to they have far easier ways to do it than scraping together bits of Amazon data.
Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware Posted Dec 20, 2012 21:30 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]
I'm sure you would care more if you were one of the Syrian bloggers who got jailed & tortured because of what they read/wrote online...
Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware Posted Dec 21, 2012 22:30 UTC (Fri) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link] Letting businesses know what things I like means they're more likely to continue making them.A minor quibble: they know what you like because you bought it. They don't need to know it's you that bought it, though, to get the signal to keep making them.
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