Any risk is increased by sloppy implementation. For example, every single keystroke is being sent over HTTP without encryption. (http://www.outflux.net/blog/ar

Any risk is increased by sloppy implementation. For example, every single keystroke is being sent over HTTP without encryption. (http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2012/11/09/product-search-in-ubuntu-12-10/ http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2012/11/09/product-sear...) Today, if you want to de-Amazon Ubuntu, it's not just the shopping lens you have to disable, you should also remove Unity web app integration. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4888234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4888234) If it gets to the point where you have to run a shell script to remove the 'spyware' (for lack of a better word), Ubuntu will have a real marketing problem on its hands.