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Knowledge and consent

Knowledge and consent

Posted Dec 17, 2012 19:41 UTC (Mon) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
In reply to: Knowledge and consent by dlang
Parent article: Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware

> he defines "submitting a search and being surprised what search engine you are submitting it to" as being "without the users consent"

Meh, actually he defines "submitting what seems to be a local search and being surprised when it is actually submitted to a remote, commercial, search engine when you have not previously signed up to that service" as being "without the users consent". And do you know what? It has some logic to it.


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