The adverts are telemetry, which I don't appreciate being forced to deal with, and especially in open source. At best, it is delivering a broken product to fix,

The adverts are telemetry, which I don't appreciate being forced to deal with, and especially in open source. At best, it is delivering a broken product to fix, a typically shitty corporate behavior that attempts to grab something in their interest at the cost of being customer-antagonistic. Not like it is the first time. - in the past, Ubuntu has demonstrated a willingness to sell surveillance of their user base to a third party[1]. It makes me trust the company less and worry that if their fortunes or management changes, they'll do slimier, less obvious things. I suppose this all is ultimately a positive thing. Greed heads serve the function of keeping distro-churn up when they do something gross enough to chase people off, which helps keep the ecosystem healthy. [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-performs-u-turn-over-amazon-search-results-in-ubuntu-12-10/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-performs-u-turn-over...