It's not the first time Canonical is pulling this kind of thing. Years ago, they were showing Amazon ads in their launcher in Unity[1]. I guess this made people

It's not the first time Canonical is pulling this kind of thing. Years ago, they were showing Amazon ads in their launcher in Unity[1]. I guess this made people quite skeptical about this. APT is also one of the most important and sensitive parts of the OS. Ads have no place there, no matter from whom they are. What if they decide to put third party ads in there too? "Thank you for installing Apache, but first a word from our new sponsors shadow legends..." [1] https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210...