I said that there is no privacy violation. None of your arguments demonstrate otherwise. > 1) [profit motive] The Mozilla Foundation's main source of income i

I said that there is no privacy violation. None of your arguments demonstrate otherwise. > 1) [profit motive] The Mozilla Foundation's main source of income is making money through Google searches. If you accept Mozilla in the GNU/Linux world, then you accept this motive on your own terms. > 2) Real users may not realize they have a choice, or that sending searches to 3rd parties is NOT normal in the GNU/Linux world. This is a philosophical argument about foisting your own beliefs onto new Ubuntu users. Ubuntu has always been the pragmatic distribution. It gained popularity by making non-free codecs and proprietary drivers easily available. This pragmatism has not changed. And this still doesn't have anything to do with a claimed privacy violation. > 2b) EULA's are no excuse. Which is why I had my point 2: that it is plainly obvious that the search is a global search, and that the query was sent out to the Internet. You don't need to read any notice to see this. > [spyware] You have not shown that there is any spyware present. That would require some kind of privacy violation.