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Linux has never had crap bundled? I guess the author forgot Canonical's "shopping lens" debacle, which was fully as sleazy as any ask toolbar bundling nonsense

• keenerd 10y ago
  Canonical is a special case. They are just as much an ISV as a distribution. Conflicts of interest are going to arise.
• johnny22 10y ago
  that's not the kind of bundling people are talking about.
  • rodgerd 10y ago
    Did you even read the article? That's exactly the kind of thing the author claims distribution maintainers protect users from.
    • vacri 10y ago
      "This is why Linux doesn't have spyware, doesn't come with browser toolbars, doesn't bundle limited trials, doesn't nag you to purchase and doesn't pummel you with advertising." The shopping lens was openly added as a marketed feature, and could be turned off with one action. You could, I suppose, class it as spyware, but it wasn't surreptitiously sideloaded - it was touted as a default feature. It didn't alter the browser, wasn't limited run, didn't nag you, and while I didn't use it much, it could hardly be called 'pummelling with advertising'. It was an openly-acknowledged experiment that failed, and was removed.
• cyphar 10y ago
  And the reaction from the community was so fierce that they stopped. That was the second point the author was making. I don't recommend Ubuntu any more because of unethical actions like that, and I know quite a few people who do the same.