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> The Amazon link was much more egregious though. You were sending all Dash searches through to Amazon. This was unacceptable and poorly explained. I'm sure som
by bregma 7y ago
> The Amazon link was much more egregious though. You were sending all Dash searches through to Amazon. This was unacceptable and poorly explained. I'm sure some people liked it, and they honestly could have made the integration a better trade for the user (play videos off Prime Video, etc), but only as an opt-in feature where you can see the ramifications.
You do realize that no version of Ubuntu was ever released with that feature? Sure, the Amazon scope was available for a while but you had to opt in in all shipped versions. Even if you had, Canonical turned their servers off in 2017 so it wouldn't have done much except time out.
It's easy to get upset about stuff people have made up in echo chamber "news" sites.
The feature article is about the link to open Amazon in the browser, not the Amazon scope in the Dash.
- jonathonf 7y ago> You do realize that no version of Ubuntu was ever released with that feature? Not sure that is true - I seem to remember that it was enabled by default in a couple of releases (I think somewhere around 12.04?). > you had to opt in > It's easy to get upset about stuff people have made up I raised this issue early in the Lens development phase. The response from the mailing list was (paraphrasing) "well, people can always uninstall the package if they don't want the feature" (at which point I then opted out entirely). Opt-in came much, _much_ later.