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Ubuntu literally feeds you adverts from Amazon. Sure you can opt out, but that’s not respecting user’s privacy.
by dartos 3y ago
Ubuntu literally feeds you adverts from Amazon.
Sure you can opt out, but that’s not respecting user’s privacy.
- gentleman11 3y agoFork it, or use somebody else’s fork. And wasn’t that years ago? Didn’t they stop?
- dartos 3y agoThere’s a bunch of Ubuntu forks, I think. OP just mentioned Ubuntu specifically when making a case for software that respects privacy
- pyeri 3y agoThey're also obsessed with pushing Snaps down the user's throat these days. The height of their attitude happened when they made firefox available ONLY as a Snap package and took it out of Ubuntu APT repository entirely! That's when I decided to bid them farewell and test out Debian and Mint which are still untainted by Snaps/Flatpaks.
- dublinben 3y agoThis feature has been opt-in since 2016.[0] [0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/ubuntu-16-04-proves-even-an-lts-release-can-live-at-linuxs-bleeding-edge/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/ubunt...
- sevagh 3y agoThat's Canonical's problem.
- dartos 3y agoThe creators and maintainers of Ubuntu