Interestingly, the Ubuntu feature was arguably worse. When you did a search in the application menu, they would send your request to Amazon servers and return s

Interestingly, the Ubuntu feature was arguably worse. When you did a search in the application menu, they would send your request to Amazon servers and return shopping suggestions. I.e. it was advertising third-party goods and sharing your data with a third-party service (albeit anonymized). This is Microsoft trying to sell you subscription to one of their own service products. I like neither one, but it's hard to overstate how much Canonical misunderstood its audience on that one. Mark Shuttleworth on his blog at the time, before it was rolled back: "It makes perfect sense to integrate Amazon search results in the Dash, because the Home Lens of the Dash should let you find anything anywhere. Over time, we’ll make the Dash smarter and smarter, so you can just ask for whatever you want, and it will Just Work." and "Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already."