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Of course it's not in the spirit of freedom, which is at the heart of the open-source movement. That being said, you have options: 1. You can deactivate the t
by frank_boyd 13y ago
Of course it's not in the spirit of freedom, which is at the heart of the open-source movement.
That being said, you have options:
1. You can deactivate the thing with 1 click in the privacy settings, or:
2. You can yank the concerned package itself (you wouldn't have that freedom on closed-source operating systems such as Windows or MacOS/iOS).
Open-source operating systems are still infinitely better than closed-source ones, if you want to be free. Once you'll have regained your various kinds of freedom that come with it, you will never go back to closed source. That is why open-source definitely will win, in the long-run at least.
And:
There's a host of alternatives to Ubuntu, and that means: Mark knows very well that he can never go down the "evil rabbit hole" as much as platforms that lock you in can (Apple, MS) - because open-source is by definition about freedom, it's in its DNA.
Conclusion: should he f#ck up too much one day, users are 100% free to hop to the next distro and Mark would be done - you'll never get a better insurance than that.
- hrjet 13y agoThe real worry is not Canonical misusing your data, but third-parties mis-using it. Even if Canoncial makes a mistake and goes down, in the mean time, your private information has been sent to third-parties, by default! "Third-parties" includes Amazon, disgruntled employees, MITM, intruders, govt agencies, and so on.
- frank_boyd 13y ago> The real worry is not Canonical misusing your data, but third-parties mis-using it. Nobody said otherwise. But, as I said: a) you have full control over the situation (easy options to fix the problem), b) Mark knows very well that he can't go further in privacy-related concessions - his credit is maxed out now. Btw., as a reminder, have you already quit using all products and services provided by the NSA partner companies, such as: Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype, Yahoo, Paltalk, etc.? And do you encrypt 100% of your communication (email, chat, VOIP, VPN)? Because that's the real elephant in the room, as far as your privacy is concerned (and I'm not defending Canonical's Amazon search term deal).
- pekk 13y ago"Your private information has been sent to third-parties" every time you do a search on Google. Many pieces of software do Google searches without anyone making a huge ideological stink over it.
- hrjet 13y agoMany people don't realize the significance of privacy. That's not a good reason to shoot down those who do.