Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware [LWN.net]

Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware

Posted Dec 20, 2012 13:08 UTC (Thu) by Otus (guest, #67685)
In reply to: Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware by gutschke
Parent article: Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware

> On the one hand you are complaining that the searches done through Dash
> are insufficiently targeted.
>
> On the other hand you suggest that Ubuntu should anonymize queries.
>
> This is somewhat contradictory.

Only somewhat: anonymizing queries does not prevent you from doing targeting
on the user's computer, even such targeting that requires search history
(should of course come with opt in/out).

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