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Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware

Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware

Posted Dec 23, 2012 17:18 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware by markshuttle
Parent article: Ubuntu, non-advertisements, and spyware

Can you simply make a dialog that asks users "Your search is going to be sent to Amazon, do you want to continue?" the first time the global search is used.

It needs not to be very obtrusive, a simple band should suffice, like the one that FireFox shows during the first run.


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