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You're making a big assumption about the "problems". Ubuntu's problem is to make revenue, making it a separate lens will cut down the the searches to Amazon by
by recoiledsnake 14y ago
You're making a big assumption about the "problems". Ubuntu's problem is to make revenue, making it a separate lens will cut down the the searches to Amazon by a huge amount, almost no one will use the new lens, whereas now everyone is forced to look at Amazon results.
Making it search Amazon by default will raise much much more revenue.
- gitarr 14y agoI believe that in the long run a move like this will have the opposite effect: All the technical, security and privacy aware users will leave Ubuntu and will stop promoting it. They will find another distribution they can trust and it is easy for them to move. Currently the lens search data is sent in clear text to Canonical servers, then they send what, we don't know, to Amazon servers. Meanwhile your ISP, your government and potential men in the middle are also getting the same data. This is nothing else than an amateur move, poorly thought out and poorly implemented. Shame on Shuttleworth for bringing shame on Ubuntu.
- takluyver 14y agoBut if users go elsewhere because of this sort of thing, Ubuntu doesn't make money either. To be fair, I'm sure many end users won't care. But I think they have a serious problem with advocates - people like me who would recommend Ubuntu to others. I already feel less comfortable recommending it if it's going to do things like this.
- benatkin 14y agoIt also doesn't make it acceptable to me. For it to be acceptable to me there needs to be no integration with Amazon at all.