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> It is treated privately - it gets anonymized, so there's no privacy violation going on in the first place. Fat chance. Say I wanted to edit my resume, so I p
by peeters 14y ago
> It is treated privately - it gets anonymized, so there's no privacy violation going on in the first place.
Fat chance. Say I wanted to edit my resume, so I pop open Dash and search for "John Smith Resume". As long as they send up "John Smith Resume", they know a) my name, and b) that I'm looking for a new job.
> Do you expect privacy when you search in a Google search box also?
Apples and oranges. I have different expectations when searching local data than when searching public data. If something's indexed by Google, it's not secret obviously. If something's on my hard drive, it might be secret.
- rlpb 14y ago> I have different expectations when searching local data than when searching public data. Your problem is that you believe the Dash to be a search for local data, when it is not. It is a single search box which is supposed to figure out what resource you want (be it local or remote). Observe ordinary users (the users that Ubuntu is aimed at, btw). Many will go to Google and type a URL in their search box. They do not distinguish. If a search fails, they don't care that they didn't type the search into the wrong type of box. As far as they're concerned, it didn't work. Demanding that they differentiate first is a worse UX. If you want to do a local search, then don't type the search into a global search box.