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From one of the commenters: "This new extension is installed by stealth, hijacks the search functions of the browser by masquerading itself as plain Google sea
by cstejerean 17y ago
From one of the commenters:
"This new extension is installed by stealth, hijacks the search functions of the browser by masquerading itself as plain Google search but funnels those searches to your own custom Google search, and some data those searches done by unknowing users is being collected by someone at Canonical."
I don't like what Canonical is doing here, or the way they answered people's concerns on that thread. I really hope this "feature" goes away by the time Karmic ships.
- TallGuyShort 17y agoYeah, I'm less worried about the feature than I am about the attitude that put it there, though. Microsoft did a similar thing during updates a while ago. You couldn't uninstall it without editing the registry, you could only disable it, and you were never notified of it. They way they've done it is just sneaky, and not like them at all. Not a good sign - but I've always wandered if Ubuntu might become too commercial. Maybe it's time I investigate another Distro just in case.
- bmelton 17y agoWouldn't it be fairly simple to just fork Ubuntu? If that completely misses what you meant, I would probably recommend just stepping back to Debian.
- benatkin 17y agoI've heard good things about Arch, if you want another bleeding-edge desktop distro. The nice thing about Ubuntu, though, is it's good for both desktop and servers, and makes it really easy to use the desktop distro for development and then use the same stuff on the server.
- vidarh 17y agoThat's what OpenVz, KVM or Xen is for. I don't know about Ubuntu, but on the latest Debian getting an OpenVz setup going is an apt-get of a single package and then you have the pleasure of having your dev stuff nicely isolated and there's no reason to worry about whether the distro is good for both desktop and server anymore (it also means you can make conservative choices for the servers that'd be "unpleasant" to live with on the desktop...) My home box is running 14-15 containers now - I spin up a new one for all larger projects, plus a few others. It's lightweight enough that I don't notice the overhead.
- daemin 17y agoWell in a more recent update Microsoft enabled the addon's uninstallation, so now you can remove it without registry hacking.