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Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spywareUbuntu, non-advertisements, and spywarePosted Dec 14, 2012 9:31 UTC (Fri) by SiB (subscriber, #4048)In reply to: Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware by wagerrard Parent article: Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware
> ... they don't care ...
That is the core of the problem.
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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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